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And I remember looking at these two versions of my obituary and thinking, "Oh boy, I'm on totally the wrong track here.
我記得我面對著我的這兩份訃告，心想：“哦，天吶，我處在錯誤的人生軌道上，
If I carry on living as I am now, I'm just not going to end up where I want to be in five years, or 10 years, or at the end of my life."
如果我繼續這樣生活下去，我是不會完成我生命的終極目標的，不論是在5年還是10年內，甚至到生命走到盡頭是，我都不會完成。
I made a few changes, let go of some loose trappings of my old life,
我做了一些改變，放棄了一些以前生活的奢華，
and through a bit of a leap of logic, decided to row across the Atlantic Ocean.
經過幾次邏輯跳躍，然后決定去橫渡大西洋。
The Atlantic Rowing Race runs from the Canaries to Antigua, it's about 3,000 miles,
劃船橫渡大西洋的行程從卡納里亞斯群島到安提瓜，行程大約3000英里，
and it turned out to be the hardest thing I had ever done.
而這次旅程也成為了我所完成的最困難的事。
Sure, I had wanted to get outside of my comfort zone,
的確，我曾很想擺脫我安逸的生活，
but what I'd sort of failed to notice was that getting out of your comfort zone is, by definition, extremely uncomfortable.
但是我確從來沒意識到，跳出我的舒適生活之外，我卻過得如此不舒服，
And my timing was not great either: 2005, when I did the Atlantic, was the year of Hurricane Katrina.
而且，我對時機的把握也不是很好，2005年，我正在橫渡大西洋的時候，也正是卡特里娜颶風肆虐的那一年。
There were more tropical storms in the North Atlantic than ever before, since records began.
北大西洋上的熱帶風暴也多于史上有紀錄的任何時候。
And pretty early on, those storms started making their presence known.
很快，這些風暴就顯示出了它們的威力。
All four of my oars broke before I reached halfway across.
我的四個槳在我的行程還沒有達到一半的時候就全壞了。
Oars are not supposed to look like this. But what can you do?
看上去槳不應該是這樣的。但你又能怎么辦？
You're in the middle of the ocean. Oars are your only means of propulsion.
你正處在大洋當中，這些槳是你唯一的動力來源。
So I just had to look around the boat and figure out what I was going to use to fix up these oars so that I could carry on.
我只好找遍了整條船，想辦法找到能夠修好這些槳的東西，這樣才能繼續我的旅程。
So I found a boat hook and my trusty duct tape and splintered the boat hook to the oars to reinforce it.
我找到了一個船竿和我信賴的多功能膠布，然后我把船竿弄斷，用它們加固船槳。
Then, when that gave out, I sawed the wheel axles off my spare rowing seat and used those.
然后，等它們不起作用了，我又把我的備用劃船座椅的輪軸鋸了下來，用它們來修我的槳。
And then when those gave out, I cannibalized one of the broken oars.
當它們不起作用了，我又把我的一支壞槳拆下來使用。
I'd never been very good at fixing stuff when I was living my old life,
我以前并不是一個擅長修補的人，
but it's amazing how resourceful you can become when you're in the middle of the ocean and there's only one way to get to the other side.
但當你身處海洋之中的時候，你會驚奇地發現你變得能夠隨機應變，而這也是通向彼岸的唯一辦法。
