Beyond

The concept of beyond is a personal value.  It is a personal principle, standard and mindset.  It does not represent the after-life.  It represents what is ahead on the road of life...if and only if, I am willing to strive for it.  Because if I am just walking down the road of life, like a hamster walks his wheel, I will miss what is beyond and I will only continue to see what I see.

Next to Oz is the Yellow Brick Road, Vaporize Boundaries is my own personal favorite mindset.  To make boundaries melt into the sunset is the physical act of beyond.  To break a four-minute mile, to break nine-five in the one-hundred meters, to walk after being wheelchair bound, to achieve an A in Algebra after cranking out eight years of C's in Math, to become sober, to repair relationships with family, to invent a new paint can...what has not yet been done - that is possible?

To envision what can be done is the mental act of beyond.  To find work that is enjoyable and meaningful, while still able to support one's family, to connect two individuals and smell the aroma of their collaborative effort, to forge written words from the colander of one's soul to help liberate another's burden or to improve their life or business, to connect to another's words, allowing them to lubricate the gears within your mind and hit a new level of thought...what can be imagined - that is possible?

What is beyond is different.  And what is different is a kernel of knowledge that we did not before possess.  A kernel of knowledge gained strengthens our journey and expands the boundaries to what lies beyond.