An Island in the South Pacific

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I read one of my follower’s (who I’m also following) profile. She said she lives on an island in the South Pacific. An island in the South Pacific! You mean like the movie, “South Pacific” based on the book, “Tales of the South Pacific” by James A. Michener? Wow! A real island in the South Pacific! We all know it never rains on an island in the South Pacific yet everything is green. I can see myself living there. Running around kissing women in grass skirts with coconut shells covering their bosoms. Dodging coconuts as they fall off the trees. Getting a suntan on the glorious white sandy beaches next to a beautiful blue ocean. Where people don’t use money–they trade with coconuts. Life would be but a dream. Merrily, merrily, merrily.... ZZZZZzzzzzZZZZZ. If you don’t know that sound it’s a needle scraping across a vinyl record. Time to wake up. Time to quit romanticizing. Growing up I thought living on a island in the South Pacific would be like living in a dream. Not only did I see the movie, “South Pacific,” but I also read a book which (if I remember right) was titled, “Tiki” set in the South Pacific. Endless days of sun and warmth where life problems were nonexistent. Don’t ask me why I thought this. I don’t remember much about the book, “Tiki” other than it was set in the South Pacific. But I think it was about a group of people who were stranded on a deserted island. They built a raft and floated away (to where I don’t remember). I’m sure life for them wasn’t a bed of roses. And the movie, “South Pacific”? I’m sure they had their problems, too. I think what really snapped me out of my fantasy was when I met a military man who was station in Hawaii. “Wow,” I said to him, “living there must have been really exciting.” “The first few weeks were,” the man said, “but after that not so much. You’re living on an island. There’s only so much you can see and do. You’re surrounded by water so you can’t just go somewhere else. You’re stuck doing and seeing the same old thing over and over.” I’d like to visit Hawaii some day but I’m no long all cranked up about living on an island in the South Pacific.