Just Like a Sailboat

Just Like a Sailboat

It’s the age old question: “what do you want to be when you grow up?”

I have been asked this question over and over again throughout the years. Especially being a college student I feel like people ask me about what I want be when I grow up almost on a daily basis. Unlike most, I have never had an answer for the question. Even an unrealistic answer like accidental Italian pop princess, although I would thoroughly enjoy that. The truth is I don’t have an answer.

Ben Rector has a song called Sailboat, shout out to a fellow Oklahoman. At the beginning of the song it says: “I feel just like a sailboat / don’t know where I’m headed.” To be honest where I am right now, I feel just like a sailboat and I don’t know where I headed. Now let me explain that a little more. See I do have a major and I am a college student, so I do have a broad direction of where I am headed, but things get complicated when people ask questions. I have a lot of interest and a lot of ideas as to what I am interested in, but only time will tell where I end up.

In the movie Titanic, Jack Dawson can be quoted saying “Life’s a gift and I don’t intend on wasting it.” I believe there is a lot of truth in these words. Life itself is a good and perfect gift and should not be wasted. It kills me when people live there life in a way to “check off the boxes” or by a strict “five year plan.” Why spend extensive time planning out your life when God can do immeasurable more than you could imagine? Live life and love where you are placed because it is for a reason.

So towards the end of the song Sailboat it says: “the only change I see / lost or found, let’s see / the only difference is believing I’ll make it in.” Sailboats are directed by a combination of the wind and the person in control of the boat, there is faith that the boat will make it back. When I say “I feel just like a sailboat,” I mean that I don’t know what is in store for me and I don’t know where I’ll end up, but I have faith in God’s plan and what he can do.  

It is easy to become consumed with and obsess over the future and its possibilities, but that is pointless. Why bother when you can live life now and enjoy where you currently are. Although I do not have a solid answer for what I want to be when I grow up, I have given it some thought and at this point in time, I feel just like a sailboat.

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