It’s a tricky business, cutting people, but sometimes it has to be done.
Transcript
A little more about my cutlass: I’ve mainly used it to slash things, but I’m going to have to tell you that I’ve had to use it to slice people as well. People are sometimes just as much a length of rope as Didja, Canya, and Wouldja are, and there are times you have to cut people just as much as things.
It’s a tricky business, cutting people, but sometimes it has to be done. A pirate can show loyalty to a cause, or to a crew, or to a captain, but never forget one thing: A pirate is a pirate because, in the end, you can’t pin him down to a person, a place, or an item for very long. People change, priorities change, and values don’t change as much as they get lost and rediscovered. Much in the same way a ship can get caught in the Doldrums until the winds pick back up. Or, in this pirate’s case, he remembered he was a pirate, to begin with. That’s when the game changes, my friends. This pirate began to take account of who and what he was dealing with, and as this pirate said previously, it all came down to a moment where he wasn’t prepared to continue putting up with the bullshit anymore.
This pirate decided to look straight ahead and set a course. A pirate should live with intention. The intention is a code in itself if you stop to think about it. In many ways, it’s rule one in the game of survival. Survival is a little relative a word. In this pirate’s case, it’s the ability to sail. To carry out his plan and to live as he sees fit. So, this pirate set about slashing the ropes, scraping the barnacles, and removing the deadwood. And now, this pirate…is ready to sail.
So let’s sail.