Board Thread:What Would You Do?/@comment-35674737-20180709061532

The night was warm with the cool, salty breeze of the ocean coming over you. For the one week or so of the year you had off, you always made time to see the ocean. The sounds were so ingrained in your mind that you simply couldn’t live without such a integral part of your life. Sadly, your years have crept up on you.



You were—as a child—striving to be a captain. Life would never  be uninteresting; and you were right. There wasn’t ever a dull moment.



Struggling your way through the top of the Navy, you were the best of your class. You studied your way through some of the most difficult  of subjects: Detection Theory, Boundary Losses, Reflection Coefficients. You knew it all.



<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">    <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">This work helped you earn your Dolphins, and you became the captain of your very own submarine after years of dedication. Your reputation became so great that you were quoted in textbooks, and helped pioneer new ways for quicker, more efficient Target Motion Analysis. You were one of the prominent faces of anything dealing with your realm of expertise: Submarines.

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">    <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Though time has changed. You were no longer the bushy-eyed twenty, thirty, or even forty-year old captain that you used to be. Now you’re in your mid-fifties, suddenly aware that throughout your life you never loved in your life. There you were, a genius and figurehead in the naval circles stuck with the agonizing realization that your heart has never fallen for a woman. The idea of never being able to bear a child was a painful realization, it was just something that wouldn't leave your mind.

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">    <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Closing your eyes, instead of the sound of the ocean’s waves lapping the volcanic sand shore, you heard something else. A woman’s voice, you listened intently. She was singing such a beautiful melody… Opening your eyes, you notice the music is coming from a rocky outcrop. It was getting late, and you didn’t know your body could really handle the swim—maybe you should just enjoy it while it lasted.

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">What Would You Do? <ac_metadata title="The Submariners Wish."> </ac_metadata>