A pause on life.

My name is Sefton and I remember one year ago, when I was initially presented with the opportunity to embark on this endeavor. It didn’t take much convincing to get me out of the city life (Denver), and aboard this arctic expedition. For that whole year until the departure, I was eagerly awaiting the voyage. Not only until the couple days before I left Colorado was I naturally overcome by anxiety. Finally we left and the adventure at last became reality.

I knew that this opportunity would be an amazing chance of a lifetime, but I failed to realize how much introspection would happen. Out at sea, up in the Arctic Circle, away from anything resembling home, you really get a chance to view your life from an external point of view. It’s like pausing your life, walking away a couple steps, turning around and analyzing. This self-constructive-analyzation occurred much more passively than I could imagine. I don’t have to actively think about any introspection, who I am is literally presented right in from of me, for better or worse. I am realizing family dynamics, disposition, life outlook, sense of humor, on and on aspects of who I am. I am realizing things about my present life, and oddly enough about my younger days. The only uncertain is and will always be the future.

I am anxious to see how I can apply my learning to my life, when I return to it. But for now this “sabbatical” of sorts is my life, which is seemingly paradoxical. Though I must end here, for I just realized it is my day to do the dishes, and they are stacking up before my eyes.