Jamaican Till I Die!

Jamaica The Undiscovered Country! Sometimes I feel like I wasted my youth. Simply because there are lots of things I wish I had done when I had the chance and the freedom to do it. However back then my perspective on life was different. I spent a lot of time living for the next party/session failing to slow down relax and enjoy my beloved beautiful Jamaica. In my youth I traveled around Jamaica a lot but I still did not know Jamaica. All I wanted was to get from point-A to point-B, with very little interest of the space in between. Now that I am older I appreciate different things in life like the peace, tranquility and beauty of the Jamaican countryside. To tell the truth the Jamaican countryside is the undiscovered country for me because growing up we spent a lot of time driving around it trying to get to the next popular spot. To the next big event without even thinking of going into it. To explore its many wonders and beauties. For the most part in my youth I took Jamaica for gr...

You have been living away from Jamaica for some 20,30 or 40 years and in all that time you have not been a regular visitor to the island but now you have decided that it is time for you to retire and you want to retire back home in Jamaica. In all the time you have been away you have been carrying around these romantic memories of how life use-to-be, how wonderful life was in the area where you grew up. So you spent many years dreaming and pining about returning home to recapture these special moments in your beloved country. There is nothing wrong with this except, you have been away from Jamaica for such a longtime and like anywhere else, life change, people change, places change. Some change for the better and others change for the worse but you would not know this about Jamaica because you disconnected yourself from Jamaica and like Morpheus disconnecting Neo from the Matrix, ...you have been living in a romantic, nostalgic dream world. First let’s clear up a few simple fa...