#RobeBop The Antarctica Polar Plunge Edition
Joyful supportive peer pressure works. Let’s apply it to climate change.
When they announced that the mud room was open, I hurried from breakfast with
@guylalibertedj (he sensed procrastination, saying you better get get going) to prep, including my typically regular morning poop. Oh no—due to strenuous travels—and, let’s be real:
My subconscious mega tightening fear of jumping willingly into the ice cold ocean…
It wouldn’t come out.
Noooo!!!! This A+++++ Asian kid student went panic mode—of missing out on the allotted window to participate in the polar plunge. All the cool kids were doing the
@iceman_hof .
I tried all the tricks, desperate to get out there to do something I was scared of. When else was I gonna be back in Antarctica?!! Breathing, squatting on the seat, bracing against the walls of this utterly luxurious impossibly spacious ship bathroom (better than most NYC apartments!) and turning on something as soothing as possible (
@mariannewilliamson audiobook).
I couldn’t believe it. I could FEEL it. You know that point of no return but the discomfort (not even pain but sheer frustration), the job wasn’t fully done yet. That last 20% or 10% but it’s almost like being stuck at the starting line…
Then my roommate, a sage single mother of two,
@huenusolsona (sole Argentine on the trip), walks in. She’s concerned. Why is Leiti listening to what sounds like a meditation making grunting noises? Is everything OK?
I tell her what’s up. Or what’s stuck.
She gives me the greatest advice ever. “Whatever you do, don’t force it.” (She also let me know that with our extremely enthusiastic group, the line was long…like that of the hot new ride at Disneyland. Some went back for seconds.)
That did it. That was when the turtle head peeked out, curious to experience this world.
And the rest was history. The hardest poop after sharing ‘the poem that came out like a poop’ about my late mother’s pickiness—conquering fears, less due to gratitude that I got there in time.
To come…picky poop jam sess with
@blondish .
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@coolthekids .
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