No I can't fly,
can't swim across the sea. I don't wonder why, it's just the way it's gonna
be... (Jonas Brothers – The World)
One sentence can
have a very deep meaning to me. Like my favorite lyric above. For me, that
lyric means that I have limits, and I can never surpass that limit no matter
what I do. And I also don't have to wonder about it because that is how I am
designed. Everybody has flaws, and as a human we have limits in terms of our
power. And there is always opposite to everything in this world. So, if there
is a limit to someone's power, there is also something else who have unlimited
power. That's one way to believe in God, for he has no limit in everything,
unlike human who is not perfect.
I don't have to
get upset with my limitations, because if I have limits then I must have a
power in the first place. Most importantly, even though I have limit, that
doesn't mean I have to just give up when I thought I know my limits. Knowledge
is an illusion for me. The more I know about some things, the more I seem to
realize that I'm lost, that I don’t know anything. I don't think it is
useless... In fact it is very useful to guide your life. It's just... for me,
sometimes when I learn new knowledge I will realize that I am lost, and in
order to get back to the right track I need to gather new knowledge about that
'right track'. It seems like I was back to zero, you know. I know something,
but at the same time I'm clueless.
But that doesn't
mean I have to stop looking for knowledge because that means I let myself to
get lost in the blank space. This also applied in knowing my limits. Even
though I thought I know my limits, that don’t mean it is really my limits
before I break. Just like a rubber band, we can always stretch our limits, and
it will be the end of our stretch limit when we break. I'm not afraid of
breaking. There will always be a way back to fix broken things. Even if it's
beyond broken, there will always be a way back to the time before we were born,
or to the afterlife because this is not the only world I would be living in.
When we know our
limits, indirectly we will know how powerful we are. When we realize the great
abilities our little body possesses, we tend to forget our surrounding and be
blinded with power, and more power. By keeping in mind that we have the limits,
it’s like we are pulled back to the ground after realizing that we can fly so
high we think nobody won't be able to touch us. It makes us down to earth, not
boasting how great we are to the world or regard the rest as no importance.
