You Can Never Cross the Ocean Until You Have the Courage to Lose Sight of the Shore

Yaniza Venelinova Georgieva First year English Philology group 1

“You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore”

                                                                                             Christopher Columbus

               The meaning of this statement suggests that one cannot make a great breakthrough if they don’t have the courage to get out of their comfort zones. Sometimes people are frustrated because they don’t believe that they can reach their goals, yet they spend all of their lives clinging to their old habits, too afraid to let go, and take a leap towards something new. Crossing the ocean involves a great deal of uncertainty of what is next and whether what is next is even attainable. Is there even another side to the ocean? Of course there is.

               For example, I was recently faced with two life changing choices. Weather to go to university in Veliko Turnovo or in Russe. The safest option was in Russe, because it is a one hour drive away from my hometown, and I have a lot of relatives there, but if were to study there I would have been forced to study something I don’t like as much as English Philology, for example tourism or economics. They only had English pedagogy, which would have been a safer choice, but I honestly would have hated it.

                So it took a lot of courage for an antisocial individual like me to move so far away from my only remaining family and live all alone in a big city like Veliko Turnovo, when I have been living in a small town while depending on my parent so far. But I did it in order to be able to do what I like in the future and not to be stuck with a job I hated.

                There is the saying “When life gives you lemons, make lemonade” People are given many opportunities in life, a big part of which they miss because they are too afraid to take a leap and grasp them, before they slip away.