Likewise the middles of the great continents. Without the moderating influence of the sea, the temperature variations go crazy… from forty five celsius in summer to minus twenty, thirty. Places were water is scarce. Places where sand and dust and rock spiral around you like a lunar or martian landscape. People do live in the interiors of places… and some of them do fine. But given the chance, they all want to see the ocean.
There is something that makes either extreme unpalatable. Something that means the best living is done on the edges. Not bobbing on the deep blue sea nor dwelling in the endless desert, but on the edges of both, dwelling along the shorelines.
You can stare out at the deep blue waters and find your mind blown and your heart calmed and your mind blown… but you can also stay on your feet and explore the nooks and crannies of forests and gully and mountains and fields.
In life, as in location, stay on the edges for best views.
