It’s hard to put into words how beautiful nature is, even harder to describe what you get by being immersed into nature.
I think it’s even more amplified when you don’t have any choice but to surrender to it, when the cellular connection is not working, when there’s nobody to talk to, and you don’t have anything else to do.
In those moments, locked into nature, you’re only left with that old need to just enjoy the moment, to live through those boring and seemingly useless minutes and hear/see/smell life itself through nature.
Couple of years ago I did a family trip to a place I knew very well, close to home. It’s in the mountains, the cellular connection is unstable and there are some small walkable paths in the forests. Some are easier, some are harder.
We intentionally chose a time when there would be almost no one walking around.
The cool thing about traveling to somewhere where you already know everything about the place is that you don’t need a schedule.
You wake up and figure out the day. You can walk around, do some light trail walking, or just chill.
There is no need to do something, plus having the smartphone hardly usable made it even more valuable to me as I was enjoying those boring times when I had nothing to do but wait.
And yet, and still, there’s something that fascinates me from the contrast I feel from how, as humans, we build stuff in nature. Even more so when I’m standing alone in front of them.
The photo from this post was taken in one of those moments, coming back from a walk with my family, and the 5G towers were standing silently in front of me, at the top of the hill.
Looking at that photo now, I can’t help but thinking back to the “Electric State” book, from Simon Stålenhag, but with less robots.
