10. After having lived in Spain, America is going to seem very boring to me, and I´ll need something to keep myself occupied.
9. Sailing builds character, and I just decided I don´t have enough of that.
8. Though I have received a lot of life experience here in Spain, I could gain even more life experiences being a sailor and thus have more to write about.
7. If I have more to write about I will be a more successful writer, can publish a best seller and buy dad his own 50 foot sailboat.
6. I will be able to learn even more languages and see even more of the world.
5. I will be humbled. Especially if I start out as a deck hand.
4. From experience, sailors are very unreliable people, they need someone like me to whip them into shape.
3. Also from experience, I know that sailors usually don´t have set goals for themselves. They just drop out of high school and start sailing because that´s all they want to do with their lives. I could set a better example for them.
2. I have come to not even like sailors very much, which depresses me, and the only way to repair this is to become a sailor myself and thus change my opinion.
1. And most importantly, so everyone can continue living vicariously through me.
4 comments:
Nice try. Thought-provoking reasons to be sure. However, I would miss you WAY to much, and we deserve your company more than those goal-lacking, flaky sailors you'd be SO stuck with.
Choose your wind!
Your No. 1 Fan, Ma
Dearest Daughter,
Nine of the reasons you gave were very good, almost to the point of convincing me. However, since number five is a complete impossibility, you must come home and go back to school.
You can't sail away from me...I would miss you too much.
Love, Dad
I think it's a great idea! Why do you need Dad's permission?
LOVE your blogs! Love that you're with a Spanish family now. Love that you've been dancing in the streets and talking to Spanish boys until dawn!
I am totally going with reason #1!
Love,
Katy
El Ton -
Sounds like you met sailors, got excited talking to them about what seems like it should the most exciting job in the world and then things went sour with the dude(s).
I wonder if any of the sailors you met got their dad's permission, or if they just went off and sailed, making Cuba their home and catching big fish and boxing the locals only to be a world-renowned novelist and die three wives later via suicide? That would only be the case had you met Earnest Hemingway.
Living with Spanish family will be so much more beneficial for you.
"since number five is a complete impossibility"
... your dad is awesome; better come back home.
-Zoeller
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