I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning how to sail my ship.

The metaphor frames life’s difficulties (“storms”) as conditions that need not inspire fear once a person is actively acquiring skill, judgment, and self-command (“learning how to sail my ship”). The focus is not on eliminating hardship but on building competence and inner steadiness so that adversity becomes navigable. Read this way, the line expresses a growth mindset: confidence arises from practice and experience, not from the absence of danger. It also implies agency—one’s “ship” is one’s own life—suggesting that maturity consists in taking responsibility for steering through uncertainty rather than waiting for calm seas.