Reorientation

This is the last of my wonderful Spring Break vacation.  After four glorious days visiting friends and family in Austin, and three days camping in Buescher State Park with a friend from Houston, I feel as if I am grounded as an individual again.  The time away detaching myself from what the rest of the world calls life or living, did wonders to re-evaluate what is meaningful to me.  In our technologically advanced day and age, I observe others and catch myself clinging to my phone, computer, and internet connection in the event I might miss something.  In reality, what I am missing is the simpler way of life.  Nature has a way of reorienting me to true living, a lesson back to the basics of what is the true substance of life.  True life, as I see it, is lived from the inside out, instead of external behaviors working their way inward.  In the end, I find a person's core character and beliefs are prostituted for what the world dictates a person should be.  As I return to the realm of civilization, I can see clearly again my goals, passions, and what I desire to achieve personally.  (A great book to read on this subject is Hamlet's Blackberry by William Powers.)  Now I can re-focus my efforts to completing my education graduating in May with an Associates of Arts.  Overall, I came away reinforced in my larger-than-life persona.  This, I believe, is my innate purpose and the character I was born with as both play out in my outward behavior and mode of living.  I encourage people to take advantage and make a genuine effort to get away for a time in order to enliven the soul.  This will feed and heal the soul and provide mental and emotional health and wellness.