Enigmatic Horizon

The horizon is the greatest and the most beautiful illusion I have ever seen. Achieving what is almost impossible is a great feeling but trying till eternity for the moment you know is absolutely impossible but hoping that it might just get true some day is something beyond imagination and expression. They know that they can never meet, they are not destined to meet; for when they meet, it will be the harbinger of the destruction nobody alive could ever imagine.

Sometimes when I take a moment from my journey, looking over the horizon, I ponder what the horizon signifies. Does the horizon symbolize our life journeys in some way or is it just visualization pleasure created to impress and motivate. If it is created to epitomize the life journeys or so to say the ultimate truth, there can never be a more beautiful interpretation. You seek throughout your life to get something or the other. You think what you seek is the ultimate goal. If achieved, it seems that eternity is reached, that every end is met though you still want more. Horizon, when you see, appears to have met the ends of the two most enticing and beautiful entities but it’s nothing more than an illusion albeit a beautiful one. One thinks the journey is just about to materialize, but it goes on. It never ends because a journey doesn't have a true source, nor does it have a true destination. Source and destination are mere semblances. Journey is the sole veracity. Well, that is what I think.

For me, the horizon is a big motivating object. If you notice, this chimera is the most prominent at dawn and dusk. How I interpret this as a motivating factor, one wonders? Well, dawn marks the beginning of anything, a moment where myths are born. So, I think this is in cohesion with the beginning of a goal, an interest, an aim or be it anything. When one dreams something, a desire is born. At that point, the very factor of reaching the destination is the most prominent, but the journey is still not clear. Gradually when a journey begins, the chimera fades with the onset of real things that one has to face for reaching the goal. After all the effort, when finally you think that you have got what you deserved, what you have wanted, that is the moment of the dusk when again the illusion is the brightest. There’s no end to a journey. Where a part of journey seems to end, another part begins; awaiting another dawn. The horizon is not what it seems after all! It never ends, it goes on like life. That is what motivates me.

Every time I brood over the horizon, it gives a different meaning. It answers the unasked questions and leaves many asked questions unanswered. It’s mystical. The very fact that it appears as the meeting point of the eternals, while it is not and perhaps can never be is what makes it more exquisite. The enigma of the utmost illusion is somehow unaccountable and is best left unexplained.

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