A desire to touch the heavens

Humans are creatures not content with keeping their feet on the ground. The heavens are what we strive to touch. This striving is often manifested by the need to build ever-taller buildings than have ever been built before.

This desire has reached its current culmination in Dubai in the form of Burj Khalifa, the tallest man-made structure in the world at 828 meters (2,717 feet). I took the elevator that travels at 10 meters per second to the highest observation deck in the world at almost 600 meters. A startling view of the surrounding city was what I was treated to as well as a gaggle of tourists taking selfies at a rate that might also qualify as a world record. What desire that fulfills I am still trying to determine.