Do you ever feel like on the sea of life, you're the captain of a boat..?

Question

..that has no compass?

Answer 1

I was gonna say "more like the chum dribbling behind," but I like your final bit!  

Yeah, sometimes!

Answer 2

no i usually feel like the barnacle on the boat lol

Answer 3

not randomly but when you mention it yea. i guess. thats good thinking.

but when i do think of it that way i think that the boat is sinking.

Answer 4

nope! i feel like the crew, who doesn't give a **** that the captain has no compass, and just enjoys climbing the rigging.

Answer 5

With Gilligan as my First Mate.

Answer 6

who sells ur weed

Answer 7

Not today. Today I'm a deck hand on a boat with no compass, torn sails, holes in the hull, on a stormy sea, with no stars visible or land in sight, surrounded by hungry sharks, the only life preserver is used by everyone else, and the captain is playing poker in his cabin with everyone else.

Answer 8

Yes, and it's sinking more every day.

Answer 9

Yes, and it's true that the boat has no compass because the compass is in my heart.  Thats how I find the direction in my life.

Answer 10

Yeah, I do all the time!  

Answer 11

I wish.

Answer 12

no i actually feel like a pirate stuck on a gigantic pirate ship of fools.  destroying  and stealing way more then we need to satiate our averice for life and comfort.

Answer 13

yes thats a very good analogy

Answer 14

I feel like on the sea of life, I am the captain of the boat, and have a great compass.

But the destination I am aiming takes forever to get to.

Answer 15

Hi Sue ,

Some times but as I row only a small boat and keep in touch with the land I don't need a compass.

Try it .

Answer 16

You should see yourself as the Captain.

P.1217 - §4 Mind is your ship, the Adjuster(Spirit) is your pilot, the human will is captain. The master of the mortal vessel should have the wisdom to trust the divine pilot to guide the ascending soul into the morontia(next wourld) harbors of eternal survival. Only by selfishness, slothfulness, and sinfulness can the will of man reject the guidance of such a loving pilot and eventually wreck the mortal career upon the evil shoals of rejected mercy and upon the rocks of embraced sin. With your consent, this faithful pilot will safely carry you across the barriers of time and the handicaps of space to the very source of the divine mind and on beyond, even to the Paradise Father of Adjusters.

Answer 17

that, or i'm down below, scrubbing the bilge tanks of the ship with no compass!  

Answer 18

no compass, no destination and no crew to help me sail. Thats my life to a T!

Answer 19

yes i do..   i think  

Answer 20

Yeah, and it's name is the Titanic

Answer 21

It's interesting that you compare life to being on a boat... are you familiar at all with existential/absurdist literature? Tom Stoppard, who wrote "Rosencrantz and Guildentstern Are Dead", made an observation in the same play that I found to be poignant. He also likened life to being on a boat, but in a very different way. To him, life is like being on a boat out on the ocean, because, you can go anywhere... so long as you remain on the boat. The boat itself has a very real destination (death) and is constantly making steady progress towards it... In this situation, as is common to existential philosophy, one has unlimited free will... but is still very much bound, and one begins to question whether or not said freewill is of any real use at all.

As for being without compass, I don't really suppose it matters all that much, so long as you remember to keep moving forward.