It was the deadliest string of shark attacks the world has ever seen. In 2011, sharks in Réunion, a beautiful island, way out in the Indian Ocean started biting people way more than ever before and with lunatic violence. The epidemic forced local surfers, politicians, and business owners into a proxy war with ocean lovers and conservationists worldwide, where long simmering tensions boiled over. Réunion: Shark Attacks in Paradise is the story of what happened on this beautiful island, and t ...
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Are You Putting Off Choosing?
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“A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.” ― Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967 Reinvention. It seems an odd word when applied to us, to our lives - to who we are or who we hope to become. He tells me he'd like to reinvent himself. Oh, okay. I wonder what he means so I ask a few questions hoping to understand. "Into what?" I ask. We laugh, but it's a serious question, even if the tone is lighthearted. He pauses and I continue the snarkiness with, "Something better I hope!" More chuckles. "Really, tell me what you're thinking," I ask. For the next few minutes, all I hear is about the past with a bit of the present sprinkled in. Mostly things I already know. But they've got a familiar ring to them. They sound like...excuses. They sound like a front, a cover story. Being the Hunter S. Thompson fan that I am, I thought of that line Hunter wrote long ago. "A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance." When he comes up for air, through the reciting of excuses, I ask, "What's stopping you?" Acting as though he didn't hear me, he says, "Sorry?" So I repeat it, "What's stopping you? What's stopping you from this reinvention?" Experience had taught me he'd likely go down one of two paths. One, he'd be bold and answer. Not many people do that. Two, he'd wind up with more excuses. That's the course he took. I wasn't shocked. After a few more minutes even he seemed exhausted with making up excuses and crafting a cover story to hide why he wasn't yet choosing to do something about this life he himself had built. The not-so-surprising thing is, like all the rest of us, he was vocalizing the many reasons why life had imposed on him circumstances and brought him to this point in life where he wasn't satisfied, much less happy. It was all these influences on him that were prompting him to desire a change, a "reinvention" as he called it. I'm not completely impatient when it comes to history or looking at our past because I realize the value in understanding it well enough to know why we may have learned what we've learned. I also know that deep down, most of us are the 11-year-old version of ourselves. Stuck in time, not because of hard wiring, but because of choice. I see it almost every day. She grew up with hardly enough to eat. Now, as a mom, she's fixated on making sure her kids eat even more than they'd like because she's remembering her own childhood hunger. Well, her kids aren't her and intellectually, she knows that but she's unable to forget her own experiences and it provokes her to battle an enemy - hunger - that her kids don't even face! That was then. This is now. I had a history professor inform us how history just keeps on being produced. We never get ahead of it. It's a conveyor belt of events and people that just never stops. Our lives are the same way. Whatever your history is matters, but how much? I mean, this woman hasn't been hungry for years. And it has no bearing on things today, except that it's so imprinted into her she won't let it go! Heavy emphasis on won't, not can't. Besides, if hunger does ever reoccur, stuffing oneself right now won't eliminate that. So Mr. I Want To Reinvent Myself is going on and on about things that have already happened. They matter, but again, the question I have is, "How much?" So I ask him. "How much does any of that matter?" More "here's my story and I'm sticking with it" ensues. It's now time to use his own language against him for his own good. "Well, if you want to reinvent yourself then doesn't that mean you invented yourself to begin with?" This ain't my first rodeo in a conversation like this. He leans his head back, putting his chin in the air. Takes a big inhale through his nostrils, then slowly exhales. By the time his chest goes in from the exhale he h...
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“A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.” ― Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967 Reinvention. It seems an odd word when applied to us, to our lives - to who we are or who we hope to become. He tells me he'd like to reinvent himself. Oh, okay. I wonder what he means so I ask a few questions hoping to understand. "Into what?" I ask. We laugh, but it's a serious question, even if the tone is lighthearted. He pauses and I continue the snarkiness with, "Something better I hope!" More chuckles. "Really, tell me what you're thinking," I ask. For the next few minutes, all I hear is about the past with a bit of the present sprinkled in. Mostly things I already know. But they've got a familiar ring to them. They sound like...excuses. They sound like a front, a cover story. Being the Hunter S. Thompson fan that I am, I thought of that line Hunter wrote long ago. "A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance." When he comes up for air, through the reciting of excuses, I ask, "What's stopping you?" Acting as though he didn't hear me, he says, "Sorry?" So I repeat it, "What's stopping you? What's stopping you from this reinvention?" Experience had taught me he'd likely go down one of two paths. One, he'd be bold and answer. Not many people do that. Two, he'd wind up with more excuses. That's the course he took. I wasn't shocked. After a few more minutes even he seemed exhausted with making up excuses and crafting a cover story to hide why he wasn't yet choosing to do something about this life he himself had built. The not-so-surprising thing is, like all the rest of us, he was vocalizing the many reasons why life had imposed on him circumstances and brought him to this point in life where he wasn't satisfied, much less happy. It was all these influences on him that were prompting him to desire a change, a "reinvention" as he called it. I'm not completely impatient when it comes to history or looking at our past because I realize the value in understanding it well enough to know why we may have learned what we've learned. I also know that deep down, most of us are the 11-year-old version of ourselves. Stuck in time, not because of hard wiring, but because of choice. I see it almost every day. She grew up with hardly enough to eat. Now, as a mom, she's fixated on making sure her kids eat even more than they'd like because she's remembering her own childhood hunger. Well, her kids aren't her and intellectually, she knows that but she's unable to forget her own experiences and it provokes her to battle an enemy - hunger - that her kids don't even face! That was then. This is now. I had a history professor inform us how history just keeps on being produced. We never get ahead of it. It's a conveyor belt of events and people that just never stops. Our lives are the same way. Whatever your history is matters, but how much? I mean, this woman hasn't been hungry for years. And it has no bearing on things today, except that it's so imprinted into her she won't let it go! Heavy emphasis on won't, not can't. Besides, if hunger does ever reoccur, stuffing oneself right now won't eliminate that. So Mr. I Want To Reinvent Myself is going on and on about things that have already happened. They matter, but again, the question I have is, "How much?" So I ask him. "How much does any of that matter?" More "here's my story and I'm sticking with it" ensues. It's now time to use his own language against him for his own good. "Well, if you want to reinvent yourself then doesn't that mean you invented yourself to begin with?" This ain't my first rodeo in a conversation like this. He leans his head back, putting his chin in the air. Takes a big inhale through his nostrils, then slowly exhales. By the time his chest goes in from the exhale he h...
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