I was certain that I would be writing here an analogy centred on the spectacular views of Antarctica that I was privelaged to experience on new years eve, with my mother. However the more I have reflected on the experience, the 14 hour flight between Sydney/Melbourne to Antarctica with 449 other passengers plus flight crew, the more I have come to realise that I can only reflect on my own reactions to the experience and what this teaches me about myself.
How does this relate to Aikido?
It relates more to how I cope when surrounded by people, how I deal with my own expectations, the ways I strive for balance in a situation with few avenues of escape.
I don't know if I want to attempt to describe, or if I have the right combination of words in me to describe, the experience as it occurred from my perspective. Or if I could even begin to do justice to those small, occasional pearls of life lessons we learn about ourselves in such unique situations.
I'm not sure if I will write more than this, I may, but I will need to do it justice.
