“It is a very strange sensation to feel quite alone in the world, cut adrift from every connection, uncertain whether the port to which you are bound can be reached, and prevented by many impediments from returning to that it has quitted. The charm of adventure sweetens that sensation, the glow of pride warms it; but then the throb of fear disturbs it; and fear with me became predominant when half an hour elapsed, and still I was alone.”
~Charlotte Bronte, passage taken from Jane Eyre
Standing alone at the edge of the sea provides even the most arrogant of souls with the ultimate perspective–the ocean’s immensity and power are almost impossible to comprehend. So, at the edge of the sea, I sat for a long time and wondered ‘what really is the ocean?’ But the more I thought, the more I came to the conclusion, ‘who really are we to ask?’
Alone at the edge of the sea
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