07/06/2024: Nature Untouched
My time at home was good. The time felt very well spent with everyone I spent time with. Absence has definitely made my heart grow fonder, and it makes me appreciate the time at home more because I know it will be a while in between now and my future visits.
I’ve strayed from the path I was on lately, due to being busy and seeing family and friends. But there are some things I want to try in the near future once we get back to the normal day to day routine. I know it would be nice to get outside more, if only to say I got out of the apartment more often. I know I should meet more people, join more communities so I don’t feel alone. And I know on the top of that list is that insatiable desire to travel and experience life.
We’ve had an incredible week doing just that, and we got to see some new things and return to some other favorite spots in nature and in the city that we now call home. After all the places we’ve been over the last couple days, I’m reminded how beautiful the world really is out there, in untouched and unhindered lands of Mother Nature’s design.
It’s amazing how beautiful naturally occurring things are, how much more enriched they are without humanity’s corruptive touch. I know that being allowed into these lands does open up the door for these things to be taken advantage of or destroyed, but I’d like to hope that the people who take the time to escape to these places have respect and love for the wild world outside, more than the rest of the world at least.
It’s humbling to stand at the edge of a mountain range, to feel how small you really are in the grand scheme of things, to realize how finite humanity is in the face of forces of nature that have existed long before we did, and that will continue to live on long after we’re gone. Without a care in the world, these things will forever thrive and never cease to be incredible, and they’re better for not being touched.
In a world that destroys so much with just a touch, a moment of boredom or a moment of bad judgment, I hope that these beautiful enduring things can continue to endure despite these things.