In the final analysis, it...
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In the final analysis, it is very risky to put one's confidence and sense of worth solely into one's own efforts, for how productive and enduring are they after all? Linda Greenlaw is captain of the Hannah Boden, a sister ship to the Andrea Gail whose sinking was dramatized in The Perfect Storm. Her book, The Hungry Ocean, describes a month's experience of commercial swordfishing on the open ocean.
She concludes the book with this anecdote: She was visiting with her friend and mentor and former boss, Bob Brown. She had returned to the Hannah Boden to pick up her personal logbooks from the wheelhouse. They were filled with her notes and lists and fishing logs from the five years she spent as captain of the Hannah Boden. She could easily carry them under one arm. She commented to Bob, "This is all I have to show for all that work. There's got to be more to life than this." Laughing he responded, "I'm 60 years old, and I still wonder the same thing. It's human nature to question what you've done with your life."
She concludes the book with this anecdote: She was visiting with her friend and mentor and former boss, Bob Brown. She had returned to the Hannah Boden to pick up her personal logbooks from the wheelhouse. They were filled with her notes and lists and fishing logs from the five years she spent as captain of the Hannah Boden. She could easily carry them under one arm. She commented to Bob, "This is all I have to show for all that work. There's got to be more to life than this." Laughing he responded, "I'm 60 years old, and I still wonder the same thing. It's human nature to question what you've done with your life."
