I know the whole world is watching now.
        And I wish the world could see what I can see.
                -Felix Baumgartner 

People used to think it was impossible
to run a mile in under four minutes
or a 100-meter dash below ten seconds.

The sound barrier is called so
because engineers feared
any aircraft trying to push through it
would get ripped to pieces.

For millenia the world looked up at the moon
without ever dreaming we’d one day walk on it.

Somebody dives toward the earth
from 135,000 feet up in the sky
and somebody else begins planning
to jump from 140,000.

Everest was considered inconquerable.
Oceans were believed uncrossable.
The Mariana Trench was thought unreachable.
We’ve succeeded at them all.

It’s almost like human beings
have no real limitations.

So what makes you think
there’s not one person on this planet
who can handle you at your worst?

Every day, people prove
how much the physical body can do.
Why should the heart be any different?

In the stolen hours of night
a beautiful conversation gives rise
to a new, indelible wisdom.

Find ways to become limitless.
Find people to be limitless with.

Give the gift of your whole self
and live ready to receive the same.

One does not need to be a believer
to appreciate the calling
of helping to bear another’s cross.

Someone is meant to walk beside you
if you can find faith in their existence.

That’s the kind of person I aim to become.

But this journey toward home
is far from complete.

Along the way, I have fallen
and fallen and fallen again
and I will someday fall more.

Still, every time falling
is like an arrival in itself.
I take a moment
to lie in my shattered mess
remembering life,
then I set about collecting
shards of broken bone
to build myself new armor.

Eventually, I’ll be rid of my fears
and when that day comes,
the true journey will begin.

Becoming limitless with another human being.

And I hope that you
will have the courage
to be limitless with me.

Maybe then
the fearful
and the faithless
will finally find a way
to collide
in realms

of eternal creation.