Air Temperature: -2 Degrees Time: 8.10am
Winter Wonderland
White frost start…typical Winter Wonderland. Made all the ‘Moor’ interesting by the usual un-gritted roads. Couldn’t help but reflect today on how you can change, in subtle ways, without really noticing, then almost all of a sudden you become aware of how different you have become…
Made me smile this morning. It’s so true ‘becoming’ is what happens to you as a person along the way of following your dreams and seeking new horizons. The process of you evolving/growing probably more significant than any perceived destination. Mainly because it’s the process that lets you ‘see’ what you are capable of being/becoming. You cannot possibly forsee that. How can you from any status quo’s perspective? In any given static situation – you can only ever ‘see’ things and the results of projections from that status quo perspective. Which in reality is limiting. It could be described as the difference between looking at a view from one window – yep you get a good ‘impression’ of what it may be like and yourself in relation to that view. But…if you get out there and ‘in’ it, submerse yourself in the environment and the details of that environment – you not only get a multitude of different perspectives and experiences, but you as a being are changed by that experience and interaction. That’s one reason why I adore long distance trail walking – you literally are not the same being after you have walked a 100 miles or so of a trail – you have shifted, changed…
Same too with wild swimming and that kind of submersion… perhaps more subtle…but has the same magic never the less – you cannot help but be ‘touched’ and changed by the environment and the deepening of your relationship with it.
So…to the ice and the water for a plunge and dunk… totally mad to some maybe…but liberating for me never the less…
What are you doing today to follow your dreams?
Enjoy your journey X