I learned to trust in the goodness of people again after our cherished kayak’s solo journey
When my partner and I moved to the Comox Valley on Vancouver Island five years ago, we were coming from a large, sprawling, polluted, anonymity-driven megalopolis in the global south. It took us time to get used to how things are done on “the island.” This past summer, we decided to do something truly “island-y.” And by that, I mean trusting, community-oriented, and just plain old naïve.
Oh, how we loved this kayak and the ventures it bestowed! We loved it so much that we decided it would be most used if it lived at our house. And so, it was. The kayak moved from my parents’ garage to our backyard, where it would be regularly hauled a couple of blocks to the ocean shores whenever the tides were high.
To say we both felt ill would be an understatement. It was a mixture of shame, guilt, stupidity and disappointment all wrapped into tightly knit aches in our bellies. I couldn’t bring myself to tell my parents. Not yet at least. First, we had to scour the shorelines, scan all the nearby forests and, most certainly, return to that big old piece of driftwood night after night. One night we faced the truth. It was truly gone.
The post got hugs, hearts, likes and replies. But no kayak. We finally told my parents and ordered not one, but two replacement boats. One for us and one for them. Immediately the guilt subsided. But my disappointment and anger, not so much.It happened by chance really, as I am rarely on Facebook. But there I was, looking up at a notification on the Lost, Stolen or Found in the Comox Valley page.
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