I Can Basically Sail A Boat Now!
Although it would have to be a pretty basic boat. Plus, we didn't go outside the harbor. But we did practice in the harbor channel. I can tack & jibe now. Not talented enough yet to go out & be a pirate or anything. There's still so much to learn & we get to go back on Monday & go into the open ocean. Very exciting!
There's is one thing though, Matt & I are now both at the same level & both love doing the rigging & being the skipper. So that should be entertaining since we're both competitive. We might have to bring boxing gloves on the boats we start sailing! In all seriousness, it's friendly competition, so far. I'm happy that we both love doing this. We'll have to come up with guidelines on who gets to be the skipper when & divvy up the tasks involved. He does have mechanical knowledge on me so that makes things a little lopsided as far as running a boat but I really want to learn everything there is to learn. -Even how to scrape barnacles off the hull!
As far as trying to be patient with finding out all the answers to how we will eventually sail around the world goes..... I have ups & downs. One day I will feel totally confident that this is going to happen & then the next day I'm like, "Am I just kidding myself?!". But then I try to shoo those negative thoughts away & say, "Universe, can you help me be more positive & patient about this please?!". And then I try to let it go & move on to focusing on something else like crap around the house that needs to actually be done, like now.
This morning was super hard, as I just spent almost all of last month sick & then felt like I was getting sick again & had to take cold medicine which left me all spacey & not very productive at anything today. However, when I looked at some pictures of the Seychelles & got some info about whether to sail around them or the Maldives my spirits lifted & I'm in a good space again. I've learned from one of my favorite authors & people I really admire, Gabrielle Bernstein, that it's not that we will never fall out of alignment with where we want to be but how quickly we return to align with where we want to be. In other words, feel the shit that brings us down but then move through it & reach out for something that uplifts us & brings us back into a positive mood. It's not easy but I think it's easier than it used to be. Hopefully this can help someone else.
In fact, I think this weekend I might make an emergency list of what does life my spirits up when I'm blue. -Just so I can go to it when I can't think clearly about what those things are. And I know there are sometimes when nothing but crying your eyes out for hours helps. -Followed up by a nap & lots of water. But I'd like to give myself a rope to climb out of a hole if I've fallen in & there's no one around to help me get out. So I'll post some things in a couple of days to give others ideas to make their own mood rescue kit. However, nothing beats talking to someone else. Sometimes though, you have to wait to be able to talk to the right person.
