Guardian of the Canyon

“I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing in this trivial world of men. I must break away and get out into the mountains to learn the news”

 

― John Muir

 

Do you remember how everything was amazing when you were a child? When every little thing, every little trip was a discovery? When driving your bike on the top of a small hill on a Sunday afternoon feels like summiting the Everest? Yes. An astounding sense of wonder, we all had it. But do you also remember losing it? Not precisely. It slowly fades away as you grow up, “adventures” are replaced by the routine of adulthood. Don’t you sometimes catch yourself wishing you could get that back? I know you do.

I do believe that this relentless thirst for the “awe” feeling is still inside us. More or less hidden behind our confort zone. Think about it, you’ll see. You had dreams when you were a child, you have dreams now, don’t give up on them. Do whatever it takes to fulfill them. People might say you’re unconscious, reckless, but there is a thin line between that and courage.

 

Explore.

 

Don’t live on the bet that you’ll have the freedom to do what you want to do later, because chances are you won’t.

 

So live.

 

It’s the power of imagination that makes us infinite.

 

Done