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I wish I knew how to go about expressing my feelings right at the moment.
The closest word is "passionate"
The second closest is "lusty"
But not lusty as in "horny"
Or "sexual"
Maybe "rugged" is a better word
Rugged
Something difficult
Challenging
Mountains are rugged
Canyons are rugged
The wind swept plains are rugged
All are challenging
Windswept Plains? Rugged? Challenging?
Probably the most of all three.
But no body spends a weekend backpacking through the windswept plains
Because there's nothing there!
Mountains and Canyons and Backcountry...
Fires and rivers and streams and rocks and animals and trees and everything...
Everything
To take your mind off of you.
To distract you from humanity
From having to live life
--your life.
You can find shelter in the mountains
You can stake a tent
With little fear of it being blown away
You can build a fire
You can find water
You can find food
In the wind swept plains?
Not so much.
In the mountains and canyons and back country there are avalanches, rockfalls, bears, mountain lions, things that can harm you, possibly kill you.
In the wind swept plains
There is lightening
Which will kill you.
In the canyons and mountains and backcountry there are outcrops and vistas and beautiful views of the land that you can look upon and cozy up to at night around a crackling fire.
In the windswept plains
There is a horizon
An endless blank line
Cold and uninterrupted.
At night...
A sky
A dark sky
A body of stars forever eternal
Looking down upon...
Upon what?
Upon you.
You.
What are you to them?
What are you to the horizon
You are nothing
And unlike the steps you take along well worn mountain paths and canyon trails and backcountry routs... the steps you take in the windswept plains take you where you've already been. Forever.
No body spends a weekend backpacking through the windswept plains
Because there's nothing there to challenge them.
Except for themselves.
The closest word is "passionate"
The second closest is "lusty"
But not lusty as in "horny"
Or "sexual"
Maybe "rugged" is a better word
Rugged
Something difficult
Challenging
Mountains are rugged
Canyons are rugged
The wind swept plains are rugged
All are challenging
Windswept Plains? Rugged? Challenging?
Probably the most of all three.
But no body spends a weekend backpacking through the windswept plains
Because there's nothing there!
Mountains and Canyons and Backcountry...
Fires and rivers and streams and rocks and animals and trees and everything...
Everything
To take your mind off of you.
To distract you from humanity
From having to live life
--your life.
You can find shelter in the mountains
You can stake a tent
With little fear of it being blown away
You can build a fire
You can find water
You can find food
In the wind swept plains?
Not so much.
In the mountains and canyons and back country there are avalanches, rockfalls, bears, mountain lions, things that can harm you, possibly kill you.
In the wind swept plains
There is lightening
Which will kill you.
In the canyons and mountains and backcountry there are outcrops and vistas and beautiful views of the land that you can look upon and cozy up to at night around a crackling fire.
In the windswept plains
There is a horizon
An endless blank line
Cold and uninterrupted.
At night...
A sky
A dark sky
A body of stars forever eternal
Looking down upon...
Upon what?
Upon you.
You.
What are you to them?
What are you to the horizon
You are nothing
And unlike the steps you take along well worn mountain paths and canyon trails and backcountry routs... the steps you take in the windswept plains take you where you've already been. Forever.
No body spends a weekend backpacking through the windswept plains
Because there's nothing there to challenge them.
Except for themselves.