Boats

I don't really like boats.

I've never really enjoy being out on the water.

Not a big swimmer either.

So when I go to my cabin on a lake I usually end up being peer pressured into going into the boat and doing some water activity.

It was like this awhile ago.

The water was freezing cold due to the long winter but we went out anyway and I went with them, but only to observe.

So I was all bundled up on the boat, preparing for the worst, and I realized something.

It's not the water activity that makes it fun, it's the people on the boat. This, I realized, is probably the biggest reason I go onto the boat. To commune with my friends and family; to interact and tell stories later.

I think that's why it's worth jumping on the boat.

I still don't really like boating or water activities all that much. It is repetitive and contained. But the people on the boat is different, the time on the boat is different, which in turn makes the story of the boat different, un-repetitive, and un-contained.

So bring on the boat, and the activities to follow.

To the Black Pearl, or the U.S.S. George Bush, or whatever my friends call it now-a-days.