Thursday, June 18, 2015

Wilderness allows one to find oneself and also to lose oneself

Watch wild, the film. Creates lots of thots within my mind. No action. I visualise myself doing it. No i doubt i have the guts and perseverence now. Will i be able to make it till the end. Fear gripped me, at the thot of me not making it. Fear gripped me, at the thot of myself nt having the chance to do it.

I have visualised myself getting lost in a new city. In the wild. Where nobody else is around. Nobody to rely on. And the fear of the unknown or danger you are abt to face. Uncertainty. And yet there is fun. The exciting opportunity to look out for what's ahead. looking forward to whats to go and what i will overcome. What i will encounter and what will be chronicled. In the wilderness. Taking in nature. How much i would have missed out if i dun get on this trip. I wouldnt have realised there are so many hidden corners and gems on earth. Iceland. Amazing corner. Glad and relieved and grateful that mervyn was with me. What would i do and how would i survive if i was alone. Treking up the slope to the top of the walking falls. Watching my steps not to fall on the slippery ice on the black sand beach and getting stuck in the snow with nobody else around and with no one who will be passing this way any sooner. Fjords and volcanic rocks. They are so huge, like the sky and i am jus a tiny speck among them. It would be a great experience tho. Target to trek alone. Everyone shld do it at least once in a lifetime.

The closest i got was a single day trip to and fro on foot to the outskirts of newcastle upon tyne and yes it leaves me such deep impression. I jus walked on and on, aimlessly, the grassland is so huge and i was all alone on the dirtpath in the middle of big grassland. I was jus walking towards the horizon. That is true peace. Inner peace and external peace. The world is such a wonderful place to be in. Such tranquility. A still moment where everything is within ur reach, within ur control and u are free to do whatever u want, with no constraints.