Vessels

When most people think of the word “vessel” they have a tendency to think of modes of transportation – cars, planes, and boats.  By definition that is correct.  Its a vehicle that transports an individual (or groups of individuals) from point A to point B.  Lets dive into this a little deeper…

Could in fact a career or even a hobby be a vessel?  Could our relationships with others also be considered a vessel?   A means that gets you from one point in your life to the next?  Id like to think so.

You see anything and everything around you are vessels.  They help you get to where you want to go.  Like a well oiled machine, however, they can only get you as far as you as well as they are prepared.  I could drive to New York City from San Francisco in a run down not so well put together jalopy or I could get there in a well refined supercar.  Get it?

One of my professors described it best by asking us one time in class “Why do you do what you do?”  All sorts of answers popped up.  After taking a few answers my professor spoke up and said, “To sustain the lifestyle in which you hope to live.”  Thats true!  We do what we do to sustain a lifestyle which we want to live.  Our career, our lifes work, is a vessel in which all these things can become realities.

In your preparation to become whatever it is that you are in the world were you diligent in the classroom?  Were you being the best you could be?  Were you creating for yourself a vessel, a supercar, that would give you the best results possible?  Or were you working on creating a jalopy?

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