Setting out to sea

You are the captain of your ship.
you;re at a coast and you wanna get to an island and its very distant
in the beginning to set off on this journey
you're on your boat by youserlf and set off and head west
in the beginning youre going away from the shore and you can still see the shore
but youre moving away and its getting smaller and youre sure youre making progress

eventually youll be so far away from where you were you cant even see it anymore
thats the beginning

then youre in the middle of the ocean and itll take awhile
behind you you see ocean and in front of you you see ocean
and all around you you see ocean
day after day youll see ocean
you start to feel like
"am i making progress? am i still going west?"
you start to doubt yourself and its scary

what you do is you just keep heading west
trust yourself and say "i KNOW i'm heading west"

eventually youre gonna see the shoreline of your destination
and youll finally make it to your destination

then find the next island