Tareva - Week 3

In class that week you showed us pictures of your backpacking travels so I wanted to blog about how those pictures made me feel. First of all, they made me feel like a lazy slob because I don't know that I could ever bring myself to do anything like that, not to mention I'm allergic to, and terrified of, almost everything outdoors. But at the same time I felt inspired and pure while I was looking at your pictures. Each photo had a sense of openness, beauty, and vulnerability to it that I experience when I go to the beach, or sing jazz in front of thousands of people. Those pictures forced me to acknowledge that when very different people approach, or are confronted with, very different places, they CAN experience the exact same emotions. When I get the chance to sing I feel excitement and beauty. When I marvel at the ocean and ask God how He keeps it there I feel wonder and purity. Looking at those pictures, I got to see people experiencing excitement, beauty, wonder, and purity, and it made me very happy. What's almost even more amazing is that people can be in the exact same place at the exact same time and "take it all in" in very different ways. For example, I remember when we went on the Oxford trip a few years ago. I've kept in touch with a lot of the peole that were on that very same trip with us and it seems like each time we talk about our memories we all remember very different aspects of the exact same moments. It's strange how that works, but incredible at the same time.