There's nothing to see, so you look (out to sea)

"There's nothing to see, so you look"

There is nothing to see. Nothing to understand. So you look. 

The horizon is something that is almost impossible to wrap our minds around. The concept that we can see so far that the sky and the earth meet at one straight horizontal line is a humbling reminder of human scale.

The horizon is the visual equivalent of infinity. 

When we look out to the horizon, there is nothing to see. There is no action, no content, no narrative, just the sky and the sun and the sea. The natural elements. Life at its most elemental. 

Such seemingly basic foundations withholding such complex systems of life. 

Perhaps this is the key to the human fascination with the horizon. This attempt to comprehend the incomprehensible, this vast blue space. The reality of it. People pay incredible amounts of money for ocean views- for nothing? 

This infinite nothingness has a calming effect, and is recognized as a sign of bliss. At least is did and was for me, until I examined it in this post.

The classic looking, gazing, searching stare out to sea is not a passive recognition, but an active search for understanding, an acknowledgement of the void. Such infinite emptiness, yet filled with so many elements of life, reduced to hues of blue meeting in a horizontal line.