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[1]Austin Kleon
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Beyond survival mode
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Friday, January 18, 2019
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There’s a turn in Dougal Robertson’s [12]Survive The Savage Sea that really
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touched me. It comes on the family’s 25th day as castaways: the sea calms down
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and there’s a “glorious sunset and a peacefulness of the spirit.” The group
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takes turns singing songs to each other. And then:
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I felt that we had already gone beyond thinking in terms of survival. We
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had started living from the sea as an adapted way of life… we no longer
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thought of rescue as one of the main objectives of our existence; we were
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no longer subject to the daily disappointment of a lonely vigil, to the
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idea that help might be at hand or was necessary. We no longer had that
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helpless feeling of dependence on others for our continued existence. We
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were alone, and stood alone, inhabitants of the savage sea.
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Nina Katchadourian talks about how much of the book (her favorite) is really
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about [13]what it’s like to be a family, and I think that’s why this scene
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touched me so deeply.
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There are moments with children, even in a boring, safe, suburban existence
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like mine, where you just feel like you’re in Survival Mode. And every once in
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a while it lifts and you feel like you’ve moved beyond just surviving, and you
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feel like you’re actually living. The children eat their food. You all tell
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stories and laugh. Books after tubs with no whining. You’re a quartet, and
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you’re all performing the same music.
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The reasons these evenings are so wonderful is because they are so rare, and in
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such stark contrast to those Survival Mode days, when you’re just trying to get
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rid of the day as well as you can.
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I’m now thinking about a passage that comes later in the “Analysis” section,
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when Robertson offers his thoughts on surviving in castaway situations:
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If any single civilized factor in a castaway’s character helps survival, it
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is a well-developed sense of the ridiculous. It helps the castaway to laugh
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in the face of impossible situations and allows him, or her, to overcome
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the assassination of all civilized codes and characteristics which hitherto
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had been the guidelines of life.
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“A well-developed sense of the ridiculous”—I cannot think of a better trait for
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a parent!
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Filed Under: [14]Miscellany Tagged: [15]comedy, [16]dougal robertson, [17]
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parenting, [18]survive the savage sea
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About the author
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[13] https://austinkleon.com/2019/01/08/of-course-well-make-it/
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[32] https://austinkleon.com/2019/10/02/drawers/
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[33] https://austinkleon.com/2018/10/02/the-right-book-at-the-right-time/
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[34] https://austinkleon.com/2017/10/02/seasonal-time/
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[35] https://austinkleon.com/steal/
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[36] https://austinkleon.com/steal-audiobook-trilogy
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[46] https://austinkleon.com/2024/09/24/human-resources/
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