Jamaican Returns
March 8th, 2008
Well, Lindsay and I are now back from our trip to Jamaica. We were down there for the Cover-All Worldwide Dealer Conference, where Cover-All dealers from around the world came together to learn about the latest and greatest, and more importantly, all get nicely. The trip was less of a vacation for me than I would have liked, as we were in the midst of launching two brand new IT systems to the dealers and a brand new building line, the Gemini. Needless to say, I was somewhat busy for most of my time down there.
Jamaica is a very interesting place. If you haven’t been there, I highly recommend that you take the time for a trip. We went to the Rose Hall Resort and Country Club in Montego Bay. It was a beautiful, all-inclusive resort. Right across the highway from our resort was the Rose Hall Great House – the mansion of a great slave plantation said to be haunted (more on that whole experience with some ghostly images in another post to follow). The most amazing thing about the country is the complete lack of a middle class – people are either very rich or very poor. It is a beautiful country with a lot of problems. It is those problems that make the attitude of the Jamaican people so awesome and inspiring.
You see, despite all of the problems down there I did not see a single unhappy Jamaican, even off of the resort. They have adpoted a philosophy whereby they choose to not dwell on their problems and to be just be happy. It really made me think – if they can be so happy that they burst into song in the halls for no good reason, why am I, with a much more comfortable life, not that happy? Don’t get me wrong, I am very happy with everything in my life, but I get weighed down by stress and the general busy-ness of life. I think I am going to make an honest effort to have a much more Jamaican state of mind.
Anyway, I am also going to try and make an effort to start blogging again on a regular basis. I know I have made that effort before and failed, but I am going to keep trying. I think a large part of the problem recently has been my dislike of WordPress. It’s a great application but as a control freak, I was much happier with my previous home-grown, though feature-lacking blog. Prehaps I’ll get back to working on that and get back to posting more often too.
More Jamaican tales and pictures to follow!
