It provides exposure to completeness that proves handy in not being overwhelmed by the conventional world, with its illusory trappings. When fully ‘earthed’, one becomes, in a sense, impervious to material shocks. A deeper meaningful connect with nature would entail being insulated from harmful obsession with materialism. This transcendental refresher vacation from time to time would enable one to feel liberated from the demands of flesh, with incessant rantings and promptings of the ego.

Such a vacation would, undoubtedly, provide idyllic opportunity to discover one’s own ‘insular Tahiti’, take in its lush green ambience, its oxygen-rich freshness, its mother-of-all-music sounds and return prophylactically empowered to tackle the ‘ills’ of daily life. Going beyond the letter of this suggestion, to follow it in spirit could also manifest in an intimate communion with nature through, for instance, a brief fulfilling non-material vacation to the rural backwoods. Among the passions suggested in this context were painting, writing, dancing, walking, teaching, watching birds, helping the sick, the sad or the lost, once a month, not out of obligation but out of an urge. For me, it was about finding a passion “that won’t shut up” and “finding your music somewhere, in some-time”. I strongly suggest not dying with your music still inside you. “For as this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy, but encompassed by all of the horrors of the half-lived life.”

The concept of an insular Tahiti that Herman Melville describes in his classic work Moby-Dick is suffused with significance about life that beckons beyond the mundane and stultifying.

There is need for a flutter now and then, as a reassurance that life is flowing along the right line. People the world over crave for change to deviate from the monotonous day-to-day existence.

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