One last thought about the cruise

I had to comment about this. It’s an amazingly cool thing to be on a big ship in the middle of the ocean, where a beautiful view is out every window (unless of course you’re sitting near the pool: have you ever seen cruise people in their swimsuits? LMAO!). It rained periodically and there was usually cloud cover. The thing is it’s a humbling thing to realize the rain and the cloud cover are not for your enjoyment or dismay either way. They don’t care if you’re there. What nature does is nothing personal. It is what happens whether your party boat is there or not. I imagined that the clouds and the rain and the waves and the fish and the sun all come and go 24 hours a day, beyond our lifetime, regardless of whether we are there to acknowledge it. It’s nature doing its thing and we can watch it if we’re not too busy on the dance floor or over-enduldging in boat drinks and all-you-can-eat buffet. Nature doesn’t put on a show when we humans ask for it. It just does its thing. And in fact, to some extent its thing is a result of what we as a planet do to it overall. It’s a grand thing to think about when you’re in the middle of the ocean: it’s not an amusement park, is it?