The Harpooner

The Harpooner

The Harpooner

People who have read Moby Dick, the master piece written by Herman Melville, may have deep impression on this magnificent scene:

A whaling ship is rolling through a sea of heavy waves, searching around for a white whale. The crews of men under Captain Ahab are struggling hard, with their muscles in great tension. They strive to make the vessel moving in its right way in the middle of these heavy seas. And they concentrate on the difficult task , fighting with the wind and waves with their full heart put into it.

However, among these crews on board, there is one person who seems to have nothing to do with this battle. There is a content and calm look on his face. He does not shake his hand paddle, with no sweats flowing on his forehead, and he does not even say one single word which can encourage others to keep on going in this hard task.

The man is the harpooner of this ship, whose duty is just to wait patiently for the critical moment to come. As Melville said: "In order to ensure the accuracy for the casting, the harpooner is not supposed to take his chance hurriedly after being weighed down .He should reserve his strength, just like recharging the batteries, and then take the challenge calmly."

The eye of the storm is quite similar with the harpooner mentioned above. Compared with the fury raging of the cyclone, the eye of the storm is calm and stable, which is unique in the hurricane.

The spirit lying behind the harpooner makes me reflect on our life we are living. Life is also full of all kinds of emergent and troublesome situations, which will throw us in panic. Sometimes we are at lost and confused, not knowing how to deal with them. Under such circumstances, we need to be as calm as the harpooner, making our inner world the eye of the storm in the noisy environment. Only in this way can we be able to manage the various and unexpected happenings and then become the real master of our life.

Yes, definitely we can not forecast what life will offer us within the next minute. Maybe in the next moment, we will have the disaster happening to us or to the people around. That is the very reason why we are often confused and depressed during our life journey. Sometimes life is so hard that we just want to give up there.

However, everything has its own trace and they will never be changed by our will. What we should do is to face them in a positive way and to be as calm as we can to take all the challenges we may encounter. Then we will find out that it is our will that can take control of the life, not the way around.

Dear friends, if you are always in a hurry to handle the difficulties in your life, it is time that you learn to be a qualified harpooner, which is really a kind of life philosophy. If you feel you can not calm down to move your way forward, it is a good choice to listen to some light music with a piece of Bluetooth stereo headset in your own place, then you will possibly find yourself the eye of the storm in the crowded world.

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