Cape Horn around the southern end of Chile is one of the world's toughest and most dangerous areas for sailing. I imagine this seen taking place on a sailing vessel a few hundred years ago.
I. Che, Luis, and Santigo, three young Chilean sailors where on their first voyage at sea and they were now head straight around Cape Horn. They doubted now that they had choosen the right profession. They wondered if they had condemned themselves to die with this choice. With these fears to quell, they drank heavy of the rum they had brought with them.
II. The many glassed of rum they consumed encouraged them, and
III. They decided they could happlily share in whatever fate awaited the ship.
IV. However, dark clouds on moving fast on the horizon hinted and made a sign that they were in for a rough ride ahead.
V. Still, with the rum warm in their belies, they took heart, plucked up courage, and were brave in the face of what they saw awaiting them.
VI. However, when the seas got rough and they started to get sick on the rum, they vilified one another and cursed each other for having the stupid idea of drinking before facing the storm.
VII. Yet they remembered their girlfiends back at home, with whom they were madly in love with, infatuated with, and passionately fond of, so
VIII. They got busy with the work of keeping the ship afloat.
X. They sensed, felt, perceived, noticed, realized, and became aware of the fact that if they didn't start working hard at their jobs and stop wallowing in fear that they would never see their beloveds again. That was their right of passage.
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