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To: altair19 who wrote (40600)1/31/2005 8:18:22 AM
From: Crocodile  Read Replies (1) of 104197
 
Altair~

For mice elf, it was never "one thing" but a series of crises (some really bad) and joys (really wonderful ones) ...each one, after is was over, slowed my life down. They were all incidences that changed the way I looked at life.

That's pretty much how it has been for me too.
The very sad things have felt as though they burned away
another layer of my life and exposed something
that was probably always there lying beneath.
The happy events often led to new friendships
or revealed new paths to be explored.

Being both a hiker and a paddler, I tend to think of life
as being a lot like trails through the wilderness
or streams leading across the northern terrain.
You just keep moving onwards, exploring the next part
and the next and the next.
I rarely think much about getting lost or turning back.
The biggest decisions are about which fork to take,
when to stop for awhile, and when to keep moving on.
I try to just go with how I'm feeling at any particular time.
I'm not much of a planner anymore -- had too much of that
in the past -- so I like to live life in a sort of wandering way.

The future is difficult (impossible) for any of us to know.
These days, I'm thinking that I'd really like to go
on an epic walk -- I've read a few online travel journals
maintained by people who have walked across the continent
or down the Pacific Trail, and so on.
Our Trans-Canada trail is pretty much complete -- enough so
to actually wander across the country, so I've been thinking
of maybe walking a part of that sometime soon.

The idea is beginning to grow within.
Could happen.
Might be interesting.
Definitely an experience.

(o:

~croc
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