A brief apology for being so absent and sporadic and random with my unsystematic posting but\u2026due to an eventful, active, and on-the-go life here in Chile, I don\u2019t allow myself to sit down, gather my thoughts, and put my words down on paper as much as I should. That being said, I made time to write about my past weekend of hiking and camping, as I believe it to be one of my most prized experiences yet.<\/p>\n
To be on the road means life holds some essence of destination, that life expects there to be movement from within you, a\u00a0shift of time and matter from present to future.\u00a0A travel, a\u00a0journey, an experience, are all products of time;\u00a0Time as a composition of earthly and cosmic turns, as an unattainable concept that we strive to perfect.\u00a0So, if time is created by man, is socially constructed, and is as abstract as abstract seems to get, how does it seem to dictate and shape every aspect of living.\u00a0Time is thrown away, laughed off, ostracized, and shoved into the corner.\u00a0Simply taken advantage of.\u00a0Yet, time is an obsession, a\u00a0daily regiment, the global dictator whose reign is adamant and always demanding.\u00a0It relays and regulates every millisecond of our every single day, yet we seem to be both over-aware and ignorant of its concept and its ever-lurking presence.\u00a0It\u2019s the elephant in the room that many do not seem to accept with full awareness and recognition.\u00a0We have a sense of living time, of human time, of constant earthly time, beating in seconds, minutes, hours, turning into days, months, years.\u00a0Yet every single one of these is limited.\u00a0Each one is both a miniscule and a grandiose representation of our tread upon earth, of the effective sinking of our footprints into the soil, whether it be in forward or backward motion.We expectantly project into the future and hesitantly reach deeply back into our past, believing both will help us in our current situation.\u00a0Yet we don\u2019t seem to allow ourselves to focus on\u00a0the beating time occurring at the fleeting moment of our current situation.\u00a0If the Now is disregarded, neglected, simply overlooked, are we then solely living for the future, or simply living in our past?\u00a0What happens, then, when the Now is all we live for, is all we believe to be relevant?<\/p>\n
In reverence to this,\u00a0September 24th<\/sup>, 25th<\/sup>, and 26th\u00a0<\/sup>were impeccable paradigms of moving simply and willingly with the ebb and flow of life\u2019s unpredictability and passage of time.\u00a0It was three of us dropped on the side of a dirt road\u2014one with trickling traffic, mind you\u2014with hiking packs in tact and thumbs greeting passing cars in hopes of meeting a\u00a0willing soul.\u00a0After 22 minutes,\u00a057 seconds, and 15 cars, a\u00a0cloud of dust shrouded us as a truck pulled off the road and aided the first leg of our trek up the mountain.\u00a0We met willing souls for three days straight, riding in the beds of numerous pick-ups, and hitchhiking our way up, down, in, and out of the national park.\u00a0We waded through glacier water, stumbled upon a rock beach island forward-facing a cascading waterfall, napping in the beating rays with the cataract exploding at our toes.\u00a0We camped directly next to the rushing river, the sun setting low on the rapids, the sound of tires on gravel road, the beam of intermittent headlights, and the stars opening up the sky through the tree line profiles\u2014like perforations in black paint\u2014once nightfall hit.\u00a0We used discarded aluminum cans to boil water for dinner over our campfire flames, we snuggled up with hot stones in our sleeping bags and tent, and we continuously paused in awe over the idyllic spread of landscape that was panned out before our very eyes.<\/p>\n No plan, just a leap of faith into the arms of time.<\/p>\n To truly make the most of the time that is given unto us, do we simply find a balance between over-awareness and ignorance? How is it that we can simply master an art of timely equilibrium?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A brief apology for being so absent and sporadic and random with my unsystematic posting but\u2026due to an eventful, active, and on-the-go life here in Chile, I don\u2019t allow myself to sit down, gather my thoughts, and put my words down on paper as much as I should. That being said, I made time to … <\/p>\n