Bad vibes good vibes

I am finished with my skin cancer treatment and hopefully am on the mend. I have really been feeling bad for the last several weeks. In my life I feel good almost all of the time, but lately have just felt lousy and I do not like that feeling at all. I am leaving Wednesday to go to Australia to fish for 1000 lb Black Marlin. If I were to try and catch one today, I would probably last all of ten minutes instead of the 1 – 2 hour battle that will be required.

Australia is all of the way on the other side of the world. It is a grueling trip that begins with a four or five hour trip to LA, and then fourteen hours to Sydney, and then another four hours flying time all of the way to the Northern city of Cairns, and then two hours by small plane to a remote island called Lizard Island where I will be picked up by boat and ferried to a mother ship for a weeks worth of fishing. This amounts to about twenty five hours flying time altogether and that is not to mention time spent in layovers and going through security lines. I got tired just writing this, much less going on this trip.

This trip was setup almost a year ago and would be expensive and very difficult to cancel. I have been thinking that I might go to the doctor and try to get a B-12 shot, or testosterone, or some booster shot of some sort to build up my energy for my trip. I would imagine he will tell me to get some rest. Hmmm I don’t leave until Wednesday but yet I have meetings and weeks of work to accomplish before I go and blah, blah, blah

I have found in life that things are rarely as bad as we fear that they might be and half the battles in life are fought in our minds. When faced with difficult things in life I try to think of good things instead of dwelling on the bad. Give it a try and see if it does not help your outlook. Let’s see now, gentle breeze, cobalt blue water, giant marlin screaming line off a 130 reel the size of a basketball, deck hands screaming, and a big smile plastered on my ugly mug as I take my seat in the fighting chair; oh yeah I can do this.

Luke 6:45
The good man brings good things out of the
good stored up in his heart, and the evil man
brings evil things out of the evil stored up in
his heart. For out of the overflow of his heart
his mouth speaks.