"Limit Breakers"

Limit breakers

by:

Virgilio F. De leon Jr.

Walter Bishop (The crazy and funny mad scientist type from the Fringe Series) was on to something when he said that Minds, all of our minds start with limitless potential and the more we learn and experience things the more we find limitations. The Fringe Series has dwelled on the unlimited powers of the mind and Olivia Dunham the main female lead is a manifestation of these powers. I want to say that Ignorance is really bliss. If one knows that bullets will not kill you, you won’t be paralyzed by fear when you are in a gun fight but knowledge does come at a price and knowing the pain of searing hot lead causes fear and preservation the next time a gun fight occurs. It’s like when you didn’t know that something hot can burn you. Nowadays people even have an aversion for heat!

I always believe that knowing one's limits could actually allow you to know what direction to push when it is needed but limitations are merely that, they limit you to great things that you otherwise can achieve. Yes it is our mind warning us of danger and avoidance of pain but it is this very thing that separates the great from the simple. If Isaac Newton knew his limitations he wouldn’t have invented the light bulb, if scientists would listen to the inner voice that would say this is impossible and this isn’t going to happen then great things wouldn’t have been born at all, there would be no man on the moon or there won’t be mega structures that dwarf man, there won’t be vaccines and there won’t be great strides in scientific history at all. Fear limits us but knowledge of limitations limits us far more. So what are we to do? Sometimes it is best to do things without thinking ahead, Batman would probably argue with me on that but there are times that you see a situation and you need to take advantage of it. The results often vary but it is still satisfying to know that you were not limited by anything and that you had followed the desires of your heart rather than your mind. And when limits are ignored there are so much more that we can achieve. Go ahead and be a limit breaker today.