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 The simplicity of my day to day. |
| On this day in 1719, Daniel Defoe’s fictional work The Life and Strange Adventures of Robinson Crusoe is published. The book, about a shipwrecked sailor who spends 28 years on a deserted island, is based on the experiences of shipwreck victims and of Alexander Selkirk, a Scottish sailor who spent four years on a small island off the coast of South America in the early 1700s. In your entry today, write about being stranded on a deserted island. What would you do to keep yourself sane? My worst nightmare would to be stranded alone, anywhere. It’s not that I mind normally having solitary time, but always with the knowledge someone would be home soon. I sometimes watch Alone, the television series, and it seems there are few people, no matter their survival skills can tolerate the loneliness. We humans are pack animals, we need and I mean NEED, the company of others, nearly as much the other necessities of life. I’m not even sure I could hunt and get enough food to keep me alive in the first place. I could probably make a rudimentary shelter, but I doubt it withstand much rain and wind! The book Robinson Crusoe was a favoured read in my childhood home. I can see in my mind’s eye the cover of the hardback copy we had. Man Friday was rescued as he was about to be eaten by a tribe of cannibals. I believe this might have been my first awareness of humans eating another human. A shocking discovery by a little girl! It brings up the question of how hungry would one have to be to eat human flesh? And would one succumb to the urge? I hope never to find out! |
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