We hiked to the highest peak in the park. On our way there, we slept over and did the solo. That was one of the biggest impacts on me – it was a night all by myself to reflect. I connected with nature. It was a clear night sky with no distractions from anyone. I’ve never had that much connection to nature. Just silence all around – I could hear the wind moving. There was a point in the evening, where I got up and meditated on the view before the sun went down.
We hiked to the highest peak in the park. On our way there, we slept over and did the solo. That was one of the biggest impacts on me – it was a night all by myself to reflect. I connected with nature. It was a clear night sky with no distractions from anyone. I’ve never had that much connection to nature. Just silence all around – I could hear the wind moving. There was a point in the evening, where I got up and meditated on the view before the sun went down.
As an adult with a job and family, mortgage payments, and retirement planning, it can be difficult to not feel stuck, Stuck in the repetition of redundancy and stuck in the area of personal growth and development. As a child, your main job is to learn and grow about yourself and the ways of the world; as an adult the opportunity to work on yourself is easily diminished by other priorities. It becomes such a foreign concept that you can get lost in who you think you are and will always be. Thank you Outward Bound for providing a framework for me to rediscover myself and a safe place to uncover new things I have been hiding from. I am, in some ways, heartbroken to leave the course, but have no fear in returning to my life because I know that it will be forever changed for the better.