Verse 25: Sea the Limit

In between the sea and the sky there's a fine-line we call horizon; that horizon is earth, the platform of human civilization. People always look up and talk about the sky; they say things like "the sky is the limit".

But what about the sea? In all practicality, I think the sea is far greater than the sky.

How often do we tilt our heads up and get a view unobstructed by some sort of man-made structure, be it a light fixture, the ceiling, skyscrapers, or an airplane? How usual, or unusual, that we head out to watch the heaven on a clear night and see only a few bright stars because of light pollution from urban expansion? The truth is, our perception of the sky is contributed by many arbitrary factors: nitrogen that makes the sky blue, the curvature of earth that makes it orange at sunset, the lack of light that makes it dark. What is the limit of the sky? Is it the height of the clouds? Or the earth's atmosphere? Or does it extend deep into outer-space, that empty space some scientists call ether that is made of 100% nothing?

The boundaries of the sky is undefined, it is then pointless to set "sky" as a limit. If we define the sky as infinitely big, then we will never, not even theoretically, reach our limit, thus never achieve our full potential. Some people would like to believe that the human potential is unlimited, but be real, the human body will never run as fast as a cheetah, the human mind will never contain as much information as the Internet. After-all, we're defined by X number of chromosomes and Y number of neurons.


Look across the sea, you get a view unobstructed. Sea, the almighty sea... that vast area covering 7/10 of earth's surface. It is the sea that symbolizes life of a planet, yet it has swallowed Titanic and all those on-board. Hence the sea is the limit. As boundless as it looks, there is a shore on the other side. As abysmal as it seems, there are rocks at the bottom. As impossible as something appears to be, there is possibility.