“The ship is safest when it’s in port, but that’s not what ships were built for.”
- The Pilgrimage ( Paulo Coelho )
We are meant for greater things in life. Man was created by God with unlimited talents and if you are abnormal (amputee, sick, mental illness) this is not a good reason for you to be exempted. We as human beings are tasked to go out in our shell and discover the world. This requires a deep understanding of our selves and an adequate knowledge of our own capacity. It also requires us to maximize the things that are useful to us; Nietzsche once said “if it doesn’t kill you, it will help you.” All these things around us are useful in our growth, but how do we grow? We have to sacrifice and make our way out of our comfort zone in that way we may have the capacity to see things in a different perspective.
Sailing is the most difficult task that we should do in our life. We are the captain, the sailors and the ship. We determine the place where we go. The ship (you) carries a treasure within that differs from the other ship. We should not allow any one to get it from us. It is our duty to protect it. The captain is our mind, the sailor is our body, the ship is our very heart and the treasure is our own talents. The compendium of these three and the cooperation each and one of them, would allow us to be strong and steady even in the darkest storm in our life.
Our purpose here on earth is not just to eat, drink, and have fun, sleep and other things that a mediocre man do, we have to do some work that would push ourselves to the limit and with that we would be proud of ourselves that we accomplished something in our life. Why should we allow ourselves to remain stagnant in our port? We have to sail in the vastness of our soul and discover the richness of our life. Every island that we see in our life becomes a new discovery of our self and be a better person in the coming days of our life.
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