The Perfect Octopus
Most of you have seen this beautiful video that is currently making the rounds on internet…
Great video, music & story…
However,
I am not sure it happened the way the video is sequenced…
In fact, I am sure it did not!
Also,
- You are not supposed to hunt or bring anything up from below when diving with air tanks – which the guy was if we believe he chased the octopus for over 3 min.
- How do you go about diving holding a camera AND a gun? you only have two hands, unless of course if you are the octopus…
That is today’s world in a nut-shelled metaphor: unless you have a perfect story, or body, etc… nobody listens or sees you – Instant fame is very often made up – it gives a sense of inadequacy to most people that can never meet up with these non-real expectations – it gives them the sense that their lives are sub par… when they are not!
Life happens more like Sandman’s elephant story :
(…) Remembering the encounter in 1986, (…) he walked right up to the elephant and stared back in wonder.
The elephant trumpeted again, wrapped its trunk around one of Peter legs and slammed him against the railing, killing him instantly. (…)
at ground level, life is smelly, dirty & cares not for happy endings… that what makes the beauty of it, in my view.
What happens to the lesson when we tell lies?
Like this Zen master of old making oddly shaped pancakes; “perfect!” would he say after each; when a student asked him why he was saying “perfect” when the pancakes were obviously not, he replied:
… “perfect”!
Osu!
Camera + Spear = 2 hands, no? Why did he need a third?
This was discussed elsewhere
Nevertheless, doesn’t change the value of the blog post!
Osu BobH, thank you.
You need both hands to spear hunt – at least when you have caught something, which you are expecting will happen going out…
It is easier to swim with at least one hand free.
It is not the same purpose nor mindset to go down to hunt or to take videos… Why would anyone want to do both? In my imperfect world, you choose what you are going out for today & take the equipment you need for that; you don’t bother with anything else.
Of course, it is possible, in theory, that things happened as described, but it appears so bloody unlikely once you start thinking about it…
But as you say, it does not really change the message in my post.
osu!
Fred,
I think you’re a philosopher in a past life and look forward to the crazy conversations I’m sure we will have in person.
Osu!
Ahhh PowerOf0ne, many things I have been in past lives… “The ancient Greeks believed that souls before their birth–or returning to life after their round beneath the earth–were required to drink from the stream of Lethe. That draught (like the light-flasher in Men in Black) erased all memory of prior existences.” — Somehow, I believe that there are pathways, bridges across or through the fogs of amnesia that make us perceive, sometimes, who we really are, or were in past lives…
Intense training as well as meditation bring us close to these & it happens that we can see through, for an instant.
Osu!