where do we go?

in the past whenever i'm on the bus and it goes into the expressways, i'll look at the surrounding forests and the country just felt so big. i had no idea where was i at that point of time except that the bus was on the expressway. what's inside this forest? where does it lead to?

and not just in the bus and the forests, even at times when i'm out and i walk around areas where i'm familiar with, i'll wonder what's around the corner? never been there before. where does it lead to?

as i grew older and explored a bit further, i found out that the island is smaller than i once thought. what i thought were forests on the expressways are actually just small patches of trees that separated the expressway from the private estates behind.

what's around the corner is actually someplace i've been to so many times, just that i didn't know that place was so near to this place.

but there's always the next frontier. sometimes i imagine the people of the past, looking out into the endless oceans and deserts, wondering where does it lead to. what moment of insanity lead them to take the plunge and start the journey into such completely unknown destinations?

now that they've conquered the world, we realise that it is big, but still a much smaller place than what they first thought it to be.

what's the next frontier for mankind? now we look up at the stars, the vast universe and wonder what's up there? maybe one day my descendents will meet life from somewhere else in the universe and he'll say hey, the universe is big, but not that big.