What Ships Are Built For

I have been reading my friend Maggie's blog as she travels through Cuenca, Ecuador. Part of the URL for her blog is "whatshipsarebuiltfor". I always liked that, but never really gave much thought into what it meant until I started a blog of my own and had to pick a name for it. I really wanted "lostintherightdirection", but someone already had it. Sad. Anyway, I found the John Augustus Shedd quote that had inspired her so many months ago before she departed for Ecuador. He said, 

"a ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for"

I loved it. I felt the sense of wanderlust that Maggie had probably felt before she left for Ecuador. I can relate. I am 20 years old and at Siena College. I am safe here in my bubble. I know the professors, I know how the school works, I am comfortable here. I am in my harbor. However, I am destined for so much more. I have a sense of adventure. I love to learn, I love to laugh, I love to live. I am built for so much more than staying in my bubble at Siena College; and that is one of the main reasons I knew I had to go abroad. Exploration. New people. New experiences. A different culture. A different language. This is what ships are built for.