It’s likely that several of you guys have done some sailing and found it to be a lot of fun. The amazing thing about sailing is that two sailboats in the same breeze can be going in different directions! I’m sure you’ve noticed that.
The same thing can be true of Scouts. Let me read you a very short play to show what I mean.
Act 1: Curtain! Two boys enter to join a Scout troop.
The curtain closes. Time passes.
Act 2: The curtain opens again to show the same troop two or three years later. Where are those guys who joined in Act 1? Wait, there’s one! Hey, he’s a Patrol Leader now. And there’s the other one! But look, he’s wearing only an Assistant Patrol Leader badge. Why?
Both had the same chances. One Scout sailed ahead, one limped along. Why? Must be the set of their sails!
As Ella Wheeler Wilcox said:
One ship drives east and another drives west
With the selfsame winds that blow.
’Tis the set of the sails and not the gales
Which tells us the way to go.
