Interaction with Nature #2

Marlinton, West Virginia is the first town you run into on the other side of the Allegheny mountains and there is absolutely zero connection to the internet or the 3G network that has so quickly taken over our lives. As the words in the top right of my cell phone screen turned to "No Service" I realized that the entirety of  my break was actually going to be spent with only the company of the world around me. I took a long walk up the river which lined the small dirt path, and as I walked I realized that my disconnection from the world was purposeful. I was where I was at that very moment for a very specific reason. The situation I had been dealt  the week before I had left for Thanksgiving break was not ideal. Matter a fact, I often felt the hand I was dealt was pretty crappy. I came to realize that even though it was crappy it was my life and it was the hand I was dealt. There was no one to blame because I was where I was for a reason and there was no reason that I needed to find an excuse for that. Just like the river I was walking along, I had to keep moving. I had no control over what was in my past, and I currently found myself in some of the most beautiful mountains, and it was the connection I felt with the water that proved to me I had the ability to move forward. Things were not perfect but I was alive and moving, just like the water and it sung over the rocks and kissed the shore line. Every day of my break, I got the opportunity to wake up and find a world full of potential ahead of me, even with obstacles in my way. So all the things I had been dealing with, all the negativity that was filling my life all the sudden became the beauty of it. As  I came to this realization, a family of deer came to the bank, and although it was snowing and windy, the mother dear was taking the responsibility of taking care of her family. I too had to take responsibility for my life and make the change that would bring it to the place I wanted to be, just like all the natural things around me had done as well.