Illusion triangle

Motivation

Cousins Ryan and Bashar, the poorest two young men in the neighbourhood, became rich.
Thus, after they became the heirs of a relative of theirs whom they had not heard of, who lived far from their country.
Fortune has flown on its wings from that far land and landed in the poorest houses in the city.
Although Ryan and Bashar are related, they are also friends and, more than that, they each have a soul that does not rest until seeing the face of the other.
So, as soon as they received the money, they decided together to take a world tour.
They took tourist tours to every beautiful country. They lived in luxury hotels, slept with beauties, tasted all colours and ate at all the world’s finest restaurants, drank expensive aged wines and partook in drugs of all kinds.
A few days after returning home from their trip, Ryan woke up from his sleep in the middle of the night, unusually frightened, so he got up from his bed and took turns in the hall talking to himself:
I do not think that the poor are the most miserable creation of God, and the reason is that the poor are always busy searching for things that bring happiness to their heart, and there are so many they are countless.
If he finds something, anything to eat, he will surely be the happiest person, and if luck smiles on him and he watches a movie of any kind or walks around a garden with a cup of coffee or ice cream in his hand, eats a piece of candy, wears shoes, new or even used clothes, etc. Surely, this makes him happy.
The phrase ‘etc., etc., etc.’ within the list of requirements of the poor is not haphazardly placed. Instead, it carries a message: that the components of the list contributing to the happiness of poor individuals are too numerous to be counted.
How fortunate this poor man is! He may die of hunger, cold, or even disease. Yes, this is possible, but he definitely has hope.
There is always hope. Of course, the poor man lives to the last drop of his life happy, and the reason is that he does not suffer from fear or anxiety.
Dangers and fears surround him. He lives it day and night until it becomes something normal, a part of his life.
So, the poor man dies according to the popular proverb: ‘He dies the death of our Lord’, unlike the rich.
Yes, the rich ‘die the death of our Lord’ also, but the difference is that death comes to the poor, while the rich may face death with their wealth and status still intact.
I say this out of experience, not theorising. Just a few days ago, I was on the list of the poor, and now I am on the list of the rich!
The important thing is that sometimes, as I pass through the cemetery, I envy those dead. I feel this feeling sometimes, and ‘sometimes’ means seven days a week.

While Ryan was walking in the hall, talking to himself, he stopped when he felt pain in his bladder. He rushed to the bathroom, and while he was urinating, he caught a glimpse of his face in the mirror; suddenly he shouted, ‘Bermuda Triangle’.
‘Yes, the Bermuda Triangle is the solution’, and he got out of the bathroom without closing the zipper of his pants while repeating, ‘Yes, the Bermuda Triangle is the solution’.
When he came to the middle of the hall, he started talking to himself again:
‘The Bermuda Triangle is a marine area located north of the Caribbean islands.
Much has been said about it.
Much has been written about it.
Many movies have been made because of it.
Select the triangle and its shape with imagination.
The strange thing is that its events are old, and we have not heard anything new about it.
Is it fact or myth?
Why did modern civilised man care about it?
Is it because it is mysterious, similar to the mystery of his present and future and occupies his present with it?
Or his nostalgia for the past and its legends?
Alternatively, is the reason emptiness, and he wanted anything, anything, to occupy his mind?
Moreover, he preferred to go on an endless road, perhaps his doing this would end his suffering and keep him busy day and night so that he would not think about things that disturb his peace and awaken him from his sleep.

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I must take this adventure. I must go to that triangle to find out whether it is fact or fiction.’
Penetrate his ribs, explore his depths, and dismantle his talismans.
Then I will become famous, my name will be repeated in every corner of the globe, and international news agencies will repeat it. Headlines will read:
‘Ryan discovered the secret of the mysterious Bermuda Triangle.’
Sure, the story ends so that lovers of mysteries and legends search for a new mystery or another legend as old as history.
It is a dream that I will pursue.

Moreover, while he was thinking about his dream, he heard a knock on the door, so he said in amazement, ‘Who is this? Who is knocking on my door at this late hour of the night?’
After hesitating, he hurried and opened the door, and there he was, face to face with his friend Bashar.
He said with joy, ‘Bashar, give me good news.’
Bashar said angrily, mocking me: The person who comes late at night has good news.
Ryan: So why did you come so late at night?
Bashar: After this long tour, something strange happened. Boredom leaked into my soul. I am tired of this life, no work, no goal. In fact, sometimes I think about suicide. I think it is the perfect solution to my problem.
Ryan: I am suffering like you. I think, my friend, the best solution is to find a goal or motivation, as Christopher Columbus did. I am sure, my friend, that Christopher was suffering from anxiety and fear as well as frustration.
Bashar: You want to discover a new continent?
If I lived in his time, I would not be disappointed, because everything during his time was available. Opportunities abounded, and life was simple and uncomplicated.
Look around you. There is no more space in this life or a site that has not been drained; history has been read previously and applied and the results have appeared, everything has ended, and you still look at history as a source?
The source, my friend, is over. You live in emptiness. Do you know what emptiness is?
Our life is like a plane whose engines have failed, so our dreams are like this plane that is about to fall.
Ryan: There are definitely undiscovered parts of this world.
Bashar: What do you say?!
The sky is full of satellites. You can watch the world through the Internet. Everything in your world has become clear; your world has become a small village under a high mountain, and you are on this mountain watching everything.
Noting that I did not touch on other unknown devices that were not put on the market.
Ryan: What about, for example, the Bermuda Triangle? Do you know something about it?
Bashar: It is a legend.
It’s a myth.
Ryan: What do you say? Ships and planes have disappeared in this triangle, and there is no trace of them to this day.
Bashar: These riddles took place in the sixties.
Have you heard of a similar incident since that time?
They had shortcomings in the field of communication and technology in general, and it was necessary to find a reason to rely on them, and this myth was born.
Ryan: But people and scientists still talk about it.
Bashar: Yes, they speak, so the legend must survive.
Ryan: I don’t understand.
Bashar: People do not have the answers to all questions.
What has been resolved or its cause known has become a reality.
What could not be answered remains unknown. This bothers them, so there must be an answer; the myth is the answer to these annoying questions.
Ryan: So, we found the target.
Let’s see if the Bermuda Triangle is real or a myth.
Bashar: First, it is a waste of time.
Second, how do we prove that?
Ryan: My friend, you are already thinking of committing suicide because you are suffering from frustration, so what is the importance of time to you?
Then to answer your question as to how?
We have money that we don’t need. Let’s take a trip to the Caribbean, where the Bermuda Triangle is, and take a cruise to the same areas where planes and ships have disappeared and see what happens.
Bashar: Stop talking. Okay, I give up. I’m ready to go even to hell. What is required of me now?
Ryan: Look, the sun is out, the darkness is gone. There’s hope, my friend.
Bashar: Forget the romance now. Tell me what is required of me.
Ryan: What is required is, in fact, that I feel very sleepy, so we have to rest our bodies, even if only for four hours, then we go to the nearest airline agency and buy tickets and travel to the Caribbean. I mean one of the Caribbean countries where the Bermuda Triangle is. This is the first step.
Our next step will be once we get there. What do you think?
Bashar: I agree, Khristov, and I also feel sleepy, but if I go home, I fear that I will lose this opportunity.
Ryan: So let me get you a bed and a blanket. Do you think four hours is enough?
Bashar: Yes, enough, and I don’t want you to bring anything. I will sleep on the couch.
Ryan plodded over to his bedroom, looked at the bed for a bit, and then flopped over.




Search

Bashar woke up to Ryan’s call, waking him up from his sleep. They headed to the nearest tourism office and booked two seats on a flight to Puerto Rico.
The next day, they boarded a plane that took them to Puerto Rico, passing through another country, and the trip took fourteen hours.
Once they arrived at the hotel, they left their luggage and headed to a restaurant, and from the restaurant to the port, where they found a man in his sixties named Ramos, who had a boat.
They asked him to take them on an open cruise and, although Bashar did not believe in Ryan’s crazy idea, he asked Ramos:
‘We hear a lot about the Bermuda Triangle. Do you know anything about it?’
Ramos: I know there is an island called Bermuda, that’s all I know.
Bashar: But what about the triangle? It is said there is something mysterious, as there are ships and planes that have disappeared.
Ramos: We, like our ancestors, live in the Caribbean, which, as you know, are islands surrounded by a sea, and this sea is characterised by its dangerous coral reefs in addition to its raging storms, and since I am a sailor, I can or am sure that those ships sank as a result of these two factors.
Bashar: You mean that the Bermuda Triangle is an illusion that does not exist?
Ramos: I’ve been at sea for forty-five years, and I know I could drown just because of those two factors, and I don’t believe in this mystical thing, but people love to hear things like this.
Ryan: But you, Ramos, know the sea, but what about the sky? Haven’t you heard that there are planes that have disappeared?
Ramos: As I told you, the Caribbean is subject to severe storms. They visit us more than once a year and take away our crops and our homes.
They uproot trees and demolish houses fixed in the ground, let alone moving objects in the sky, and as you notice, these incidents occurred in the sixties and have not been repeated.
I mean for the planes, thanks to satellites, which help to notice these storms and follow their movements.
Ryan could not bear this discussion, so he directed his words to Ramos:
Since you’ve been at sea for forty-five years, you have enough experience to tell us about the best boats and other mariner’s stuff.
Ramos: If you want to help me properly, you should tell me what you want to buy a boat for?
Ryan: There is no secret. We are not looking for treasure. My friend wants to take a trip on the same sea routes that disappeared boats or planes took, to come out of this experience with a satisfactory answer to this mystery. Is it fact or fiction.
Ramos: What’s the point of all that?
Ryan: To keep us in this life – give us a motive to live.
Ramos: There are many motives available on these islands, and since you have money, you can achieve them. You are now in the most beautiful spot on Earth. You can buy a farm, as the people of these islands are good people, or you can open a restaurant or an inn. Tourism here is common, and these are real motives. Build a family and live in a beautiful country.
In addition to that, the Americans, with their modern technology, carried out several studies that cost them huge sums of money, and they did not reach any conclusions.
Ryan: Ramos, we came for a specific goal. By saying this, you are wasting your time and ours.
Ramos: Oh, sorry, then there is another solution. I am a man over sixty years of age, and there is not much left, so I am ready to share this crazy journey with you. Sorry, I mean your adventure. You two need a man who knows the sea. I am from this region, and I know the length and breadth of the Caribbean.
Why don’t you hire me and pay me in advance because I have financial obligations and it will not cost you much, so what I ask of you will be less than what you need in terms of expenses.
I will ask you for $5,000 dollars a month, and I will take you around the North Caribbean with this boat for as long as you want, and I will be available for you from this moment. In studying the itinerary, what would you say?
Ryan: We both agree.
Ramos: So, the area in which we will do the research is one million square metres, between Puerto Rico, Bermuda, and east Florida.
These are the areas that define the imaginary triangle, which means that we need more than three months for the search process.
Second: Most of the accidents occurred at the beginning of the calendar year, meaning in the winter months, and we are now in November, which means that we will wait for three weeks to begin our journey, and this is what we need to prepare the journey appropriately.
Finally, I want to conclude with the following: I am a man who is older than you; you are the age of my children, and although I am in dire need of resources, what you are doing is a waste of time and money. The Bermuda Triangle is nothing but a legend, and the accidents that occurred, as I told you, are in the winter when there are storms and the sea is agitated. He quickly unfolded the map and said:
And now I want you to see the map. Look, the so-called triangle is located almost in the middle of the globe. Its top is heading to a strait between Florida and Cuba, and its other two sides are reserved for the Caribbean islands from the south, and the other is reserved for the lands of the United States from the northern side, and it represents a spearhead for the waters of the Atlantic flowing into the Caribbean. If you look closely, you will notice that the waters of the Atlantic are confined between four continents from north to south.
This exit is surrounded by islands and reefs connected from the south and a continent from the north, so what happens? The possibility of disaster occurring in this region is possible and it is the work of nature, and now I am finished, so what do you have?
Ryan: Your words are beautiful, Ramos, but we set a specific goal when we left our homes, and we do not intend to back down from it, even if it is flimsy.
Ramos: Then let’s sign the contract and hand me $15,000, plus $1,000 for travel supplies.