Journeymen, Random Thoughts from "Life of Pi"

I started reading "Life of Pi" and came across the following. I guess in my post ("Swim Like Pi, Metuchen Y - Dec 24, 2012"), I was not that far off in my interpretation of what Ang Lee was trying to visually represent in the movie.

It was about Mamaji (respectful uncle in Hindi) teaching Pi swimming:

"Swimming instruction, which in time became swimming practice, was grueling, but there was the deep pleasure of doing a stroke with increasing ease and speed, over and over, till hypnosis practically, the water turning from molten lead to liquid light."

Ang Lee is indeed a master. He precisely staged and delivered the image from the original novel.

Masterful!

Well, in my previous post, I was begging for the question, "if it is so effortless, as if you could go on forever like you said, then why only the meager 1,750m as a new record?"

Here is the thing. The record is really the means to an end. It's the way to keep me going. It's not used comparatively to others but rather to my oldself.

In the final analysis, it's not really a matter of how fast you go, neither it is how much you go in one sitting. What's the most important is how often and how far you keep going.

I guess for that matter, life is a journey and we are all journeymen. There is always a new goal, a new record, a new height, or a new.... including new

...pods and pads for you to work hard on.

Next stop $2000m.