In my last Blog, The Sea and I: Part 1…… I spoke about the wind, and how if you try to control it, It’s going to let you know what’s up……. Part 2 is a different story….. But still a little lesson I’ve learned from the beautiful sea!!!
When I was 15, I had this giant crush on this boy that was 1 year older than I. All the kids from my school went to this camp with our youth group. They had sailboats, and so I signed up for sailing. My crush got wind that I passed the test, and was allowed to take boats out alone, and so he joined me. This camp was in Minnesota, and we were on this giant lake having a blast. He kept saying,,,,, “I can’t believe you know how to do this”, and then…… the sky turned dark, and a storm blew in really fast. The wind was so strong that the boat turtled and was STUCK upside down. We kept trying to climb on the dagger board and turn the boat back up, but we would just get knocked off by the humongous waves. My crush started freaking out. We were so cold, and lighting started striking down everywhere, and the thunder boomed as if it was coming from hell. He kept saying….. “I thought you knew how to sail”, and then he would say”, “we‘re gonna die from Hypothermia”….. I just couldn’t stop laughing. I started laughing so hard I started to cry…. And he started getting so scared and mad at me for laughing that he started to cry. The madder he got, the harder I laughed. Finally the camp came for us. Turned out the Master Pole broke, and they had to tow us to shore. My crush was traumatized forever. We stayed friends, but it was never quite the same after that.
That day I learned several things about myself. I could list them all….. But instead I’ll list the one I feel is the most important lesson. Never be TOO confident in life….. and ALWAYS have a plan for that unexpected storm…….. Then it is not a storm…. Just a beautiful display of electricity….. and mother nature at work!
Attached is a little snippet of some footage we took, for my next Music Video, for a song I wrote called “Swept Away”…… Hope you enjoy it…… I’ll be honest though….. I still suffer a little PTS from the incident I wrote of above. That adrenaline just always rushes as the wind picks up in my sales!!!! :0)
Peace To You,
Lex
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