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Show Like most of us,youprob-ably us,youprob-ably have spent most of your life dreaming about the things you'd like to do someday. some-day. As we approach an age where the chances are that some of these dreams are less likely to ever happen, we become more preoccupied pre-occupied with those dreams. 0 - One of our dreams that seems almost out of reach now, was shipping out on a tuna boat. Now there's not much fishing that ye ol' Ed hasn't experienced in one fashion or another, even to the taking of a few small tuna. But we've always been intrigued in-trigued with the idea of shipping out on a commercial tuna boat. Escaping for a few weeks to the equatorial waters of SouthAmerica, and chumming a school of big tuna, and then taking our turn at landing a few two and three hundred pounders. - 0 - We've read and seen documentaries docu-mentaries on how it's necessary for two or three men to team up with one hook to two or three poles in order to land those giant yellow tails. And how, when they start hitting, it's back breaking work for two or three hours while you fill the holds, before be-fore heading home from a successful trip. - 0 - Of course, even if ye ol' Ed was physically able to handle the work now, it is unlikely that he could find a skipper who would take the old reprobate along even for the ride. And modern technology tech-nology has probably taken the back breaking work and thrill and the future. We may never set the hook into a 300 pound yellow tail, but there is much more that we can and will do, that - is as important and self-satisfying. self-satisfying. And as long as there are dreams to be fulfilled, ful-filled, life will be worth living. rather than face disappointment, disappoint-ment, he preferred to live with his dream. The same is probablytrue of our long dreamed of tuna fishing trip. It could have taken several trips before we located that school of giant yellow tails. And we've really had no desire to be a commercial fisherman just wanted that once in a life -time experience. - 0 - We are sure our many readers similarilly have unfulfilled un-fulfilled dreams. Fantacies they keep hidden back in the inner reaches of their minds, which periodically surface and give a moment's pleasure as they add another chapter to their dream . These dreams' are as important im-portant as the fulfillment. By the time we were twenty years old, we had seen more of the world than Dad ever did. But through his magazines, books and correspondence, cor-respondence, he was intimate in-timate with the world. Today the electronic media m akes our dream s and fantacies closer and more real. Whole worlds are opened through the windows of tv and magazines, that are beyond reach of the average. av-erage. But they only provide material for your dreams. A most important part of life out of it. We are sure it would be nothing like the dreams we've harbored for twenty-five twenty-five years, but never found time after making a living, to take a crack at our dream. - 0 - It reminds me of atrip dad planned from the time we were knee high. He told of his dream so often it was real to the whole family. Finally, a few years before his death, ye ol' Ed, felt able to make that dream come true. We were moving from Washington State to the midwest, mid-west, and told dad save your vacation, and when we get there we'll take that long dreamed of trip you've been " planning. After three months of visiting National Parks, and , almost anything we had an ' inclination to see or do we at long last arrived at dad's place in Iowa, ready to ' embark on his dream trip. 0 - ; But alas, dad was just ready to go back on the job after taking his vacation. Even though he still had va- cation time, he couldn't be 1 persuaded to take it to fill , his dream of many years. 1 All our plans had gone awry. . Our disappointment was ap- parent, but he wouldn't i budge. J What happened? It was 1 several years, and only a . short time before his passing ' that we found out. As we were visiting, J during one of his many ill- nesses, we asked "Dad, , why wouldn't you take that 1 trip you had always dreame.1 of, when you had the chance?" - o - ; His ripy was simple. "I spent so many years dream - , iug of that trip I was afraid ' that the actual trip could , not liva ap to my dreams." ' - 0 - ! A true and honest man he was probably right, and i |
