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Thoughts on an Epic

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Wed, 17 Oct 2007 at 08:14pm

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Could you do it? Could you leave home in a world without cellphones, computers, cars, internet connections, cruises, motor boats, weather predictions, GPS, or even compasses. Could you leave home without knowing if you’d ever make it back, leave others knowing that they may never learn your fate, go off to be a stranger in lands stranger than your own, to know terror and doubt and have no place safe to return to. To face every kind of danger, to live governed by your own rules, the laws of many, the code of few, to wake each morning to salt and sand and sky and to sleep each night with the gentle rocking of the sea. To do as no others have done, to follow where no one has led, to become a precedent to those who would come after.

To become legendary:

to hear stories about yourself, completely false, and yet less fantastic than your actual travels. To be a name known to all, a face known to few and a man known only to himself and the wind.

Could you do it?

I don’t think I could, but I would have loved to try.

I would have loved to try.

Six others like this.
2007-10-17
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galanteeshowman
2007-10-22

Who wouldn't want to be legendary? "to hear stories abouts yourself, completely false, and yet less fantastic than your actual travels. To be a name known to all, a face known to few and a man known only to himself and the wind." I know I would... Tempting and inspiring!

sold
2007-11-12
I think anyone could do it...
bowers
2008-03-23
one day... +1
jacen1618
2009-02-21
themilkman
2009-02-21
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