2021-015 | ENJOYING GOD’S OWN TIME

WISDOM TRAILS: The outdoors is best appreciated with an open mind, a longer moment, a slower pace, with great humility and much awe. If you do not notice several lines of ants crossing a path, you are either too fast, too arrogant, too self-centered, too urbane or you have eyes that see but do not know how to look. You leave destruction instead of harmony. 

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January 18, 2018 

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FOR THE HUNTER, BLENDING is a perfected art. For the prey, it is an act of nature developed through so many years of changes in habits and genetic mutations. For the modern outdoorsman, it should be compulsory. If you cannot blend your mindset with your environment, you can never appreciate nature. It is not that hard. You just have to strip yourself of arrogance first. 

Appreciation of nature is best served in slow motion like normal walking. Humans, long ago, adapted to their environment when they found out that their anatomy could not keep up with the other terrestrial inhabitants. But they have rational brains and a soul and they walked far and wide. They soon reached the top of the food chain.

Technology kept that wide gap among all else wider than before and it had placed us even more at a precipice where we would eat our own kind someday. But I hope not. We just moved too fast for our own good and it is time to take a deep breath and open our eyes to a new perspective of our existence. 

When you are in Rome, you dress like the Romans do. But when you are among the forests, you do not dress like Spiderman. Blend in with your surroundings instead with austere-colored clothes that do not shock wildlife, even a fellow human being. Your appearance says all about you and contributes to an impact on places you pass. 

The gait you would make on the trails are different than what you are used to in walking the pavements of urban areas. The same with how you breathe. Here, time stands still and you get used to it. There are no urgent reasons for you to waste energy and please do enjoy that God-given time to absorb His Magnificence.

 

Ignorance of nature is magnified by arrogance. What people do on controlled environments should not be done in the woodlands. When you make the landscape a part of your agenda and catering to your personal pride, you are no different from those who raped the environment to satisfy their desires and whims. 

When you are outdoors, be one with the essence of the trail. A lot of people get a lot of satisfaction and joy when “they stop to smell the roses”. It is there in that zone that people get to know nature better and they could see better the details. They are “low” enough to understand that. 

The best indicator if you are in this zone is when you notice lines of ants crossing the trail. Go lower and seek the clues of what these ants are doing. Most likely you would find two or three different kinds of ants going about their business. You are in God’s own time and go enjoy your day.

 

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WARRIOR PILGRIMAGE BLOG, personified by this writer, is synonymous with the Outdoors, since Bushcraft and Survival is its niche. Safety and Security are its bedrock when it ventured into organizing outdoor events that involved people as in adventure/pilgrimage guideships and seminars; and explorations and expeditions. 

Through tutorship, experience, folk knowledge and good old common sense, this writer was able to collect useful information which he is currently documenting in a book titled, ETHICAL BUSHCRAFT. He shares some of this information and knowledge in his training sessions; in his social-media account; and in this blog.