The nudges have been there for a while.
This 14 days ago:
Obviously my whole anti-vegan shtick is trolling. My partner herself, isnāt a big fan of meat.
Those nature vibes from my troll story and then the Viking music vibes⦠I just decided to switch things up a little and go out.
I wanted some clarity and deep introspection. To get away from everything. I can just meditate in a quiet room, but I wanted the immersion. The actualization of actually going out and surrounding myself with nature. Itās different.
So thereās this trail that I used to regularly visit many years ago. One of my best friends (no longer in my life) and I, use to go there all the time and screw around. Quick tangent, but the backstory for why he left my life is because he wasnāt really a friend. I was so traumatized at the time that he pretty much used me for his own gain, by me helping him through college. When he no longer had a use for me, he distanced himself. I ended up getting traumas from that relationship, after realizing that he had been using me the whole time. That took me months to work through because I felt like complete shit. Anyways, back to the trail, pun intended.
Itās a large trail and it goes deep into an ecosystem. There are off-beaten paths that youāre not supposed to go through⦠but of course if no one is around, which there usually isnāt⦠then you can just quickly go and get lost.
I went in deep and I was completely alone. I felt a lot of nostalgia. I donāt usually go into nature. I go to the beach every now and then but⦠this type of nature is different.
It was the complete quietness and solitude. This grounded feeling. I found some place to sit and began to reflect on my life. My motivations, my desires. Why I want what I want. Looking for guidance from the ancestors.
I figured out a lot about myself. I remember just standing there, thinking about what was there where I was standing⦠100,000 years ago. All types of weird shit.
I wasnāt on a drug trip or anything like that. I donāt even smoke weed. I was completely sober. I stay far away from drugs. I remember one of my classmates from college once came back from a weekend of doing LSD. This guy was so strange, zoned out and out of it that it was unsettling. Donāt do drugs, kids. Lmao.
So Iām there in the middle of nature. I realize that weāre all fucking human. We eat, we shit, we piss, we live, we die, we get angry, we get sad, we love. Whatever. Nobody is really better than anybody else. People are skilled in different things and thatās about it. Why do we pedestalize people, when in our true nakedness we are hardly different from each other. Within that, I found this insane level of confidence and self-acceptance, in not giving an absolute fuck about what anybody thinks about me. Iām like the fucking trees now. Whatever inhibition I had left, has just vanished. Nature seems to accept itself and just do its thing without caring. We can learn a lot from nature. There is a certain level of beauty in just being free from yourself, without a darn care. The raw natural aspect of being human, being yourself. Something that nobody can take away from you. Not even god.
A lot of other stuff happened, maybe Iāll write about it later.
Really cool⦠on my way back I saw what I believe to be a Great Horned Owl, it was massive. Really magical moment and I nearly shit my pants. Lmao.