"I have reached the edge and have found that I can do more than just peer over." - Pelican Poems
An edge is a boundary of our experiences. It is the limit we have heretofore accepted and allowed to constrain our thoughts, plans, and actions. For some it is a safety, a guardrail tacked with warning signs keeping us from straying into danger. For others it is an implied goal, waiting to be pushed past, overcome, or broken down. An edge can represent fear or hope depending upon the resolve of the observer. Regardless of how one views and approaches an edge, it must be thought of as an edge of a experiential polyhedron; a three (or more) dimensional shape. Beyond an edge is not just empty void, (the hereditary fear of falling of the map shared by old sailors), but rather another surface of life, waiting to be explored.
Seeking the edge is the seeking to surpass the average, to disregard the predictable confines of our comfortable lives, and to aspire to attain the unattainable.
Ultimately, no concrete explanation of the edge can encapsulate or capture what it is to anyone pursuing it. The abstract knowledge of the edge appears when one nears its threshold. At that moment risk, and naturally a sense of fear, become sharp in our perceptions. In response, we must surrender the comfort of anything that distracts from our absolute focus. With focus and a willingness to trespass that threshold, to take the risks implied, we can plunge past the edge that looms before us and begin to explore the new dimensions that have appeared before us.
An edge is a boundary of our experiences. It is the limit we have heretofore accepted and allowed to constrain our thoughts, plans, and actions. For some it is a safety, a guardrail tacked with warning signs keeping us from straying into danger. For others it is an implied goal, waiting to be pushed past, overcome, or broken down. An edge can represent fear or hope depending upon the resolve of the observer. Regardless of how one views and approaches an edge, it must be thought of as an edge of a experiential polyhedron; a three (or more) dimensional shape. Beyond an edge is not just empty void, (the hereditary fear of falling of the map shared by old sailors), but rather another surface of life, waiting to be explored.
Seeking the edge is the seeking to surpass the average, to disregard the predictable confines of our comfortable lives, and to aspire to attain the unattainable.
Ultimately, no concrete explanation of the edge can encapsulate or capture what it is to anyone pursuing it. The abstract knowledge of the edge appears when one nears its threshold. At that moment risk, and naturally a sense of fear, become sharp in our perceptions. In response, we must surrender the comfort of anything that distracts from our absolute focus. With focus and a willingness to trespass that threshold, to take the risks implied, we can plunge past the edge that looms before us and begin to explore the new dimensions that have appeared before us.
