"It's good to keep yourself busy. Stops you going insane," he explained. He knew how important routine could be. It was the only thing that kept him from going crazy when he had been stuck in the hatch.
Desmond was so used to people just knowing about the other island that he forgot that not everyone knew what he was talking about. "Oh, right, aye. I was on a different island- my boat got wrecked, and I ended up stuck there for over three years. It was similar to this one- not quite as mental, but you couldn't leave and there were a lot of weird things going on all the time," he explained as best as he could.