melfox26:
When do the post-Cozumel blues go away? I've been back since Sunday night, and I still find myself looking on Cozumel websites often while at work. I even checked the Cozumel weather on weather.com for what reason I don't know.
Anyone else with similar experiences?
Mel
PADI Rescue Diver/Nitrox
Hi Mel,
Let me pull up a chair and try to break this to you as easy as I can. This feeling. This malaise so to speak, we'll mel, there is no easy way to say it, so I'll be blunt. IT'S NEVER GOING TO GO AWAY. Like the loss of a loved one, you'll just learn to deal with it better. There is however hope. This feeling, known as T.H.P. (the horrific pain ) will begin leave you as you approach the date of your return visit to Cozumel, and T.H.P. will indeed COMPLETLY leave your body as the flight attendant takes your boarding pass for the return flight to Cozumel.
There are stratagies to deal with T.H.P, and you'll need them untill the eventual permanent move to Cozumel comes. While you are in Cozumel, do as my wife and I do, begin to plan the next trip the second you realize you have to leave at some point.
Second continually check the weather in Cozumel (it will say something like 'cloudy and 80 f.' it never really changes, but this is of no consiquence to you, the important thing is to check it). By checking the weather your fingers touch the keyboard which is electrically connected to say, the weather channel, which is electrically connected to cozumel, so in effect each time you check the weather there, you are actually touching Cozumel, as long as you fingers are in contact with the key board, and if you are touching a place you are certainly there.
Lastly while you are at work take time to close your eyes and realize that like "the matrix" where you are is not reality. In reality we are actually in Cozumel right now, asleep, having a very bad dream. When we wake up we'll dive palancar gardens and then in the afternoon french lady, have something to eat then night dive francisco. I'll see you on the boat.
Mike
