Preface
Sometimes, everyday living gets a bit too boring, too dull,
too repetitive. It’s the same old story, the same old pancit canton breakfast,
lunch, and dinner, and there comes a time when even coffee can’t bring any
extra flavor to your life. Late at night you stare at the starry sky and wonder
if it could just take you away and transport you to a place that’s exciting and
magical.
And then it happened. We weren’t sure when it officially
started, but we heard that some people were able to immerse themselves into
entirely new worlds. How, you may ask? It wasn’t because of airplanes, time
machines, or rockets. No. It was through writing and reading. These two opened
up new possibilities for expression and imagination. And we experienced both of
them, in different stages of our life. It was amazing, yet it is difficult to
place a proper explanation of how it felt. But if we were to choose a word that
could best describe the experience, we believe that it was an abduction. How
the world of writing and reading can whisk you away into a fantastical new
universe, where the only limit to your galaxies was your imagination.
The name of our online magazine is Sky is the Beginning. We didn’t choose this title just because the
theme of our blog is the sky and the galaxy. Our title wishes to tell people
that sky is not the limit, it’s actually the beginning. We shouldn’t shackle
our thoughts to something that’s merely sky-high, when there’s a massive universe
just beyond the blue sky. Writing and reading brings you to the bigger and
higher viewpoint. When it comes to expressing your thoughts, think farther than
the sky, far enough to touch the infinities of the galaxies, and you’ll find
that life isn’t boring and repetitive at all.
If you’d like to read the pages of this online magazine,
then by all means, go. It’s best to warn you though, that the world of writing
and reading can abduct you at any moment when you least expect it. Our advice?
Let it bring you past the hazy clouds of your mind to the farthest nebulas of
your thoughts. So dear readers, write, express, discover, and get ready to kiss
the planet goodbye.
- Editor-in-Chief
