It's interesting to contemplate the beauty created by nature. This happens on a day to day basis yet gets taken for granted daily. Everyone is so busy thinking about themselves or work or any other distraction that is so miniscule when compared to the beauty of the world around us.
It is... my life has changed a lot since I moved away from the city. Well, my town is becoming a city but it's only got about 90k people though there is a lot of tourism and it's blown up since I moved here. But I live outside city limits (but 10 minutes to downtown) in the forest, a few minutes from the Blue Ridge Parkway. Just a quick drive up a switchbacking gravel road and there's a great trail, and about a hundred other trails within an hour, some incredible waterfalls, the highest point in the eastern USA, etc. Right now I'm sitting at my desk looking at all the big trees. Observing and contemplating nature really does a lot for my level of happiness which is the main reason why I moved here.
I love you guys. I am drunk. I don't smoke weed anymore. I have to wonder how often I'll trip in the coming years. This may the short term end of my psychedelic days until home ownership. Who knows. My life is up in the air at the moment.
Nothing wrong with that, I've had psychedelic phases in my life. Sometimes tripping isn't what you need, and sometimes it is. You'll figure it out, man.
Man, all I want to do is live in some kind of idyllic dream community of brilliant, creative, sexy, psychedelic-loving people in the middle of a forest somewhere.
Well... such a place does exist.
That's so cool man. Did you introduce yourself, maybe even smoke him up?
Nah, I was too nervous about it being right next to me, even if through a door. It startled me because I didn't see or hear it walk up the stairs, and then it occurred to me that, if it decided to come in, I'd be trapped in my office, so I went into the other room in case I needed to go out another door. Really though I was just wary. I've had a lot of interactions with bears around here, at my house, on hikes, even while camping before. I only had a really scary encounter once... there was a huge adult male bear eating my trash outside, and I was baking a chicken pot pie and it smelled really strongly inside. Suddenly the bear sniffed the air and ran up my side stairs to my back deck, which has 2 of the entrances to my house. He was sniffing at the doors and even leaning against them, and he spent a good 45 minutes pacing back and forth between the doors and sniffing. My doors have glass panes and if he wanted to he could have easily gotten in. Freaked me out, I went upstairs to hide. Which in retrospect would have trapped me up there.
But I've had way more positive bear experiences. Sometimes they walk down through my yard from up the mountain, we'll nod to each other as I stand on my deck and they pass quite near. I even had a mama bear drop her cub and infant off on my deck while I was sitting in my living room in front of the back doors, look me in the eye, and leave them there while she went to the front yard to eat my trash. Then she came back and got them and nodded to me and walked back uphill with them. It was the coolest thing.
They really don't scare me much, I'm just cautious of them and respectful. Black bears are cool though, they're really smart and curious and have no interest in hurting people unless you mess with them or their kids. And sometimes they end up killing or hurting people breaking into their tents to get food they didn't put in a bear bag or canister but I don't think that's their intention.