Life is full of horizons. The quest to find out what is just.over.there….such a human trait. Horizons encourage us to look beyond the present, beyond the moment – into the future and the VAST UNKNOWN.
Imagine if we could really see what was over there? Maybe that is why the world is round. So we cannot possibly see over the horizon. If we truly knew what was out there, what was coming at us, I think we would be paralyzed and unable to go forward.
If the early settlers knew just how many bleached bones, unmarked graves and abandoned hopes and dreams they would encounter on the journey west … would they have had the courage to go at all? If Columbus had known how truly far that distance was to reach the East – would he have ventured beyond the harbor?
Confucius said, “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” And Frodo had no idea what adventure lay before him as he simply walked out his door. The horizon reminds us that the adventure is there, waiting to happen, but we are not to know what it is.
View from the fire tower at Overlook Mountain in Woodstock, NY
View from a sailboat in the Caribbean Ocean
