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Chuck has lost almost everything a man can possibly lose. He's lost years of his life stranded ie marooned (that's cast away) on a deserted Fijian island
Yet in spite of it all under the circumstances, given the man he's discovered himself to be during his ordeal, he's strangely collected. Admittedly that statement is my interpretation of the action. There's nothing in the screenplay to actually express or confirm this. So it's my reading into the scene that while his future is totally uncertain, he's strangely collected (Tom's is an intense role).
As an analogy, being at a crossroads like this, occurs for me as one of two possible (and by now, both familiar) situations. The first is being trapped in the middle of ie at the crossroads of solving a slew of problems. When I'm in this situation, I'm victorious over some, and I'm failing and / or playing catch up with others. But listen: there's nothing unusual about this - not for me, not for you, not for anyone. Isn't living (at least for the most part) a never-ending series of problems to be solved / crossroads to be negotiated, yes? In a very real sense, we're always going to be stopped at ie we're always going to contend with crossroads. There's no avoiding it.