Choosing and owning a sailboat is an activity made of constant compromises. Accepting that no single boat, no matter how technologically advanced, will have all the features one desires. As you add features critical to its construction, albeit essential, another component must be sacrificed – if you were serious about sailing. Ultimately, it becomes a matter of concession: what you must select for your voyage and its remaining features that meet most of your fundamental needs but only a few of your opulence and wishes.
If the “time” of our life were an ocean, the sailboat would be our minds to cruise through the waves without the critical component – a compass. Since there is yet to be a definite destination to reach in the horizonless stretch! We are only to relish the crest and the trough of the waves, surrender to the wind regardless of its direction or fierceness, and embed grace and gratitude in our hearts to receive lofty payoffs during the expedition. That’s all we can do, really!