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<p>You are listening to Curiosity Curated Shorts. I am Zong.</p><p>We all start out chasing something, like sailors setting out to sea — a dream of who we'll become, a destination we believe defines us. The first apartment, the first promotion, the perfect relationship. Or perhaps the idea of a life perfectly ordered — in work, in love, in purpose. We set sail believing that if we can just reach that next shore, everything will come together.</p><p>The wind at our back, the promise of the unknown before us. As Melville put it, <em>"I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas."</em> That longing for the distant horizon drives us all. But what happens when the voyage doesn't go as planned? When the destination recedes, when the maps fail, when the currents prove stronger than our will?</p><p>Today, we explore three classic journeys — three protagonists who set sail with different dreams and faced vastly different seas. Captain Ahab in <em>Moby...