No Horizon

At Tommy Thompson Park today, there didn't seem to be any separation between Lake Ontario and the hazy blue sky. I felt heartened by the lack of distinction, while also dizzy at the same time. I wondered what it would feel like if a sailor on a ship simply didn't see any separate border where "sky" and "lake" separate, and whether it would feel terrifying to them to know that there isn't a single place where one could mark off such a boundary.
   Boundaries tend to be artificial, regardless of whether they are blatantly clear to the naked eye or not. Their designation is more so marked off by the mind and often referred to when defining separate things. Yet, in reality, there is no actual point in the sky that connects with the lake, or vice versa. The point where sky becomes water is actually not a demarcated point. It's relative to the viewer's position when looking at the lake and sky from a certain distance.
   Boundaries are often negotiated places. The more one explores them, the more one recognizes their continuous creation, as well as the fear that perhaps the boundary is not a fixed thing that is stopping one thing from leaking into another. During the hike through the park, we see a place where algae appears to be fenced off from the rest of a growing marshland. Yet, it strikes me as a bit odd: can and does algae obey the dictates of a porous fence, or is it possible for some of it to slip through the cracks and start to drift into the rest of the marshland? Perhaps this fence was only built for the reassurance of a local park ranger, and has no bearing on the growth of the natural world.
   In our relations with the others, there are distinct places where we are different, as well as places where we blend in, and our shapes even change a little bit. Who is the real "me" in this? It's sometimes scary to fathom that perhaps the real "me" doesn't have a real boundary. Yet, this real me must somehow include all the ways I think and act in the world. It's wonderful yet sometimes scary to contemplate how people shift and change all the time.