Voyaging into the unknown
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.
— Marcel Proust
As the quotation above suggests, the allure of true discovery is the potential of being awakened to new experiences. During the “Age of Discovery”, ships didn’t sail to new worlds simply to see them - they went to expand their influence and understanding of the world. If we deconstruct discovery as an intention, rather than an outcome, there’s an interesting contradiction to the experience - to discover something means there wasn’t a complete awareness of its existence before it was found.
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