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Well I’m still here on board #OceansofHope having #inspirational time. We are about 600nm from The Marquesas looking forward to getting onto dry land.

My mind has had time to compose itself and explore the reasons for me being here. I’m loving it and really enjoying great company with my new multi-national friends. I'm able to process the last few years and how I am evolving as a result of uncertainty clouding my ability to function 100%.

To those who know me, please accept my apologies for not talking as much as I should have. For those reading that do not know me, please keep reading, you might get to know me a little.

Let me clarify what this uncertainty means to me. Let me put it into some kind of context in order for my current position to be made clearer.

Since as long as I can remember, I have never had anything seriously wrong with me, no broken bones or major illnesses. I count myself very lucky in that respect. Then one day... BOOM! I cannot see straight. Then after that I started to have speech problems, then weird electrical currents running up and down my body.

None of these symptoms were life threatening, but they were really not funny.  They made me a nervous wreck!

I only knew of one other person with MS and she was on crutches and needed help getting anywhere. This also made me a nervous wreck.

After four months of this madness... it all gets better... with no real explanation. No real clarity from my Neurologist, no real clarity of when or how it may or may not manifest itself next. As you may guess, this made me even more of a nervous wreck.

Every cough, every time I choked on a piece of food, every time I dropped something, every time I had to go back to fetch my car keys. Every unusual pain or the inability to find the right word led me to ask myself the question... “Is this the start of another episode?”

You know what’s coming next... all this uncertainty made me a nervous wreck. I started to question everything..... relationships, my ability to work under pressure or even my ability to react rationally to things that didn’t go my way. Then I started to realise that this uncertainty is the killer. What is important is how you deal with this uncertainty.

The inability to control or anticipate when or how it is going to strike next takes up time in your daily routine. Adding a gloomy air to the happiest of experiences. It adds a little fear into every decision you make. Each day, this uncertainty sucks a little bit of hope from you… The Hope of being brilliant, The Hope of being good, The Hope of being loved or even just being adequate.

I am more relaxed with uncertainty now and have been for some time. I’m fine, it's just the dark sludge of uncertainty affects my ability to invest 100% in people or situations and as a result, I don’t get 100% from them either. I know friends find this frustrating at times, but I know this is improving.

However you see it, it's both fortunate and unfortunate that I have had to take this radical step of quitting work and sailing across the Pacific with OOH to maybe help wash away some of the sludge that is holding me back. I am happy that I have taken this step. I am not unhappy that I didn't do it before. It is what it is, and so be it.

To avoid leaving anyone out, everyone on board Oceans of Hope is contributing and helping to stick two fingers up at my old adversary of uncertainty.  I am with people whose lives are compromised so much more than mine and they are teaching me a simple rule that is very easily forgotten: Perspective is everything Rob.

“Det hele kommer an paa perspektivet”

Report from Bosun Bertram:

Dolphins, dolphins, dolphins! Hundreds of them yesterday, as we were all very occupied working on the Pacific Surprise. Jumping, dancing and flying out of the water they were all around the boat, "showing off" like Frederik said. The elegance with which they move in the water, makes you think of the one of the large hull cutting through the waves, sliding down the swells and on and on to the horizon. The days are getting longer, as we travel nearer our destination. What we have out here is so amazing, that you don't want it to end, but you really want to finish to complete the experience!

Local time on board is 11:00 and our current position is 8,55.30S, 130,59.97W.