There’s a place just past the edge of certainty, a place we don’t talk about often. It’s not on a map, nor is it something you can schedule or plan for.
It’s where dreams begin.
And for much of my life, I didn’t go there.
I kept my dreams practical. Neat. Close enough to touch but never far enough to truly scare me. I stayed within the lines because it felt safe. Because limits, even unspoken ones, offer a strange kind of comfort.
Until one day, I caught a glimpse of the horizon.
Not the literal kind, the metaphorical one. A moment of insight, or maybe intuition, when I realized I’d been living a life shaped more by fear than by possibility.
And I wondered: What’s waiting just beyond what I’ve allowed myself to imagine?
The Moment I Stopped Playing Small
It started with a question during a quiet morning journal session:
“If you weren’t afraid, what would you go after?”
I stared at the blank page.
Not because I didn’t know the answer
But because I did.
I wanted more. Not more stuff. But more aliveness.
To write from the heart. To teach. To build something that mattered.
To trust the voice inside me that had been whispering: There’s more for you.
That day, I stopped asking whether my dreams were too big.
I started asking whether I’d been dreaming too small.
Dreaming Is a Risk and a Return
Following that dream didn’t catapult me into instant success. It brought doubt, growing pains, late nights, and wrong turns. It forced me to unlearn everything I thought made me worthy of approval, productivity, and perfection.
But it also gave me freedom.
It gave me a future I could shape. A version of myself I hadn’t yet met.
And in that messy, beautiful stretch beyond the known, I found clarity.
That our limits are not fixed.
They’re often inherited. Learned. Assumed.
And they can be rewritten.
What I’ve Learned Beyond the Horizon
- The only real limits are the ones we don’t question.
Doubt what you’ve been told about what’s possible. - You don’t have to see the whole path to start walking.
Dreams aren’t GPS routes, they’re living things. - You are not too late, too much, or too far behind.
The horizon isn’t going anywhere. But you are meant to go beyond it.
Final Reflection
The edge of your comfort zone isn’t a boundary.
It’s a beginning.
Dreams will stretch you. They’ll unsettle your sense of safety.
But they’ll also expand your sense of self.
So look out. Past the plans. Past the limitations. Past what the world has told you is “realistic.”
There’s a horizon waiting.
And beyond it
There’s you, becoming everything you were born to be.
