What Do You Think About This English Proverb?

"A Calm Sea Never Made A Skillful Mariner"

Well..in my opinion, this proverb is really meaningful depending on the degree at which you look at it..In our life as the students of AS234 it addresses our actual path in our Marine Technology degree programme..yeah not just because it bears "mariner" word but because of the exact situation that we are having now..

Its simple meaning would be: A life without problems wont make us a matured person..
and people will ask...How matured is matured? Than my answer will be based on the words of Sir John C. Maxwell.."A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them and strong enough to correct them"..Wow wonderful isn't it?

So in our programme..We've so many things that seem unfamiliar with us..We have to learn so many disciplines..SCUBA, swimming, engineering, programming, financing, management and so on..wow..but all of them are not as simple as a piece of cake..We've to take a deep breath to catch them up..They are all new to us and indeed to digest them all would require a serious concentration and focus..Speaking of concentration and focus..there will be many circumstances, obstacles and problems in the process for us to actually give them out wholly for the sake of our study..and indeed those are our real and deadly "tsunami" waves..why? You figure it out!

I would like to picture our degree programme as "A VERY GREAT SHIP LOADED WITH PRECIOUS CARGOES AND LEAD BY SKILLFUL MARINERS" which is on its way to discharge the precious cargoes to right destination where the cargoes will be highly appreciated..voyaging across the ocean would be very exhausting..storms..big waves..hurricanes are all inevitable..the ship needs to reach the destination by hook or by crook..whatever comes into the path, that would be the challenge for the ship to face with..but when the ship has berthed safely and discharged all the cargoes..All the pains will just vanished in a glimpse when all of those cargoes it has brought along the hard journey are being praised and honoured.

So, those who cant cope with the "tsunami" will just be drifted away and those who "manage" to cope with it will stay on the ship..voyaging and seeing the true path of the "angry ocean" together..

Here, the proverb indirectly tells us that all the hardships that we have faced and will face in completing our study will actually benefit ourselves..molding ourselves to be more optimistic, hardworking, adherent and so forth..

Hence i feel that this proverb suits us..how about you?