"Why do we need to go on this small and dirty boat to reach to the other one....?"

 "Why do we need to go on this small and dirty boat to reach to the other one....?"

...asked my kid a couple of weeks back when we were in Goa. We were going for parasailing which needed us to be on a bigger boat the chute was on. So I explained how the big boat cannot come to the shore else it will get stuck in the sand and how these small boats cannot go in the deep sea as they aren't equipped to sail deeper in the sea...

A dinghy is often used to go from the shore to a big boat and vice versa. It is also called a tender—because it tends to the needs of the larger craft. Moderately sized recreational boats call their tenders dinghies. [Source: Marineinsights]

A few mins back I just saw another dinghy at the beach (Sorry the picture ain't clear). The larger boat can boast of daily deep explorations yet cannot sail back to the shore and the small dinghy will never be able to go on the deep sea but gets its daily dose of the sea and gets back home to the shore. Yet the dinghy may ponder how it must be like to go deeper in the seas and perhaps envy the larger boat. In turn, the larger boat may be used to the daily explorations of the deep sea and might ponder how the shore feels like - coz even when not in use, it'll be anchored and floating over the waves all through day and night all by itself. And without the dinghy, no one will ever be able to use it.

Luckily we get to select what area of our life we want to be a larger boat in and what area we prefer to be a dinghy in. We rely on dinghies for several things in our lives yet we are dinghies in the larger scheme of things, tending to larger boats... and even the largest of boats might end up envying the sea which has limitless possibilities.

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