I look at the horizon as I was travelling across oceans. The first light breaking out was a sight to see. Sleepless eyes still looked at one end to the darkness holding on, while the dawn was set to come. As the border transitioned, the light was all bright with less than a few hours of sleep for the night that never was.

Anxiety of the unknown had kept me awake…I wanted to see what was going to happen next, for which I was travelling. Eager and anxious would not define the turmoil I was going through. I wanted to see what was next to come, forgetting the law of nature. You don’t see…what you can’t see.

As I looked down on the so-called earth with the land and the ocean meeting at ends, I figured the morning bustle of people rushing through commute to places of their need or want, or someone privileged to be aimless…yet I could see no one. Contrary to this, the pilot was able to navigate through the clouds with no visibility, moving in the direction to be at a place home to a few on the flight..

Can we be like the pilot? Taking everyone home, looking at the next without the travellers batting an eyelid to see for the next to come, except for the destination. I think everyone wants to see the future but forget that you can’t see what you can’t see.

The person sitting next to me could not see the beautiful sunrise as he was fast asleep. He did miss that moment, but did it change him? If we all exist in dimensions where we see differently, then we can’t see anything that the other person is looking at. Strange, as I continued watching the sunrise, I remembered the journey of my life so far…as I look back, I now figure out so many things that could have been different and that could have made me a different person from who and what I am today.

If only I could have seen that, maybe I might have changed a few things, or maybe not. I might have just figured out a couple of right answers for my first job interview a little more smartly. This is a contrarian view to focus where you see only one thing and do one thing, quite confused. A sudden feeling of being lost came across me, along with some hot coffee and croissants, some egg and bread for breakfast, as I looked at the air hostess trying to run through her own maze of things to serve.

What seemed important for her to see was probably that all the passengers who had a difficult night had something hot to drink to start the day. What does happen when you can’t see ahead? Does that make you blind, and what if you are blinded by fear, anger, depression, or anxiety? We can never see how another person views the same situation or event, we can’t see their point of view. I figured not much can be done when you don’t see…what you can’t see.

Maybe life has its own bit of surprises, for that’s what life entails. Nothing can be seen, we are all in a state of limited vision, blinded most of the time to see what we want to see, forgetting that we can’t see a lot.

You don’t see…what you can’t see.