Notes From A Native Son Of The Rock. From Grant in Aid To FDI the Title fully supports what a youth, idled by the Fiscal Adjustment and Structural Reforms from Living in The IMF's NEST on this SIDS, overcome by the inertia seen all about and fully nutured in the island syndrome of being surrounded by water threw hands in the air in pained resignation & exclaimed that "such is our sorry lot!"
The first reaction was to suggest to the youth to spend the idle time reading St. Lucian and Cribbean Nobel Laureate Dereck Walcott's Epic Poem OMEROS which builds on events that are straight forward where simple fishermen Achille and Hector fight over Helen, a woman they both desire. Walcott expands these basic facts so that Helen comes to personify an island nation historically coveted by North Atlantic Buccaneers from "Culumbus to Castro" documented by Dr. Eric Williams and the lived experience on Antigua & Barbuda including Redonda from Statehood to Independence to Vote Of No Confidence.
The final suggestion was rather than thinking of islands surrounded by water think of islands fixed to the central core of Mother Earth. Education & Creatively.