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When a ship leaves its home port for a transoceanic voyage, the captain cannot see the arrival port for more than 99% of the journey. Yet, the captain has no doubt that he will be able to successfully arrive at his desired destination.
When an airline pilot takes off, he or she understands the arrival airport won’t be visible until the end of the trip. Yet, the pilot knows how to navigate to the selected destination.

A sketch that appeared in Harper’s Weekly in 1866 shows what may have been the first ferry to cross Berwick Bay between Morgan City and Berwick, or at least one very much like it.
It shows what is essentially a flatboat being rowed by two men. The passengers are an elegantly dressed woman shading herself with a parasol as she sits in a two-wheeled cart, an unmounted man holding the reins of his saddled horse, and a single man holding what looks like a fishing pole.

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving -- we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it -- but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes

And the trouble is, if you do not risk anything, you risk even more.
- Erica Jong