Good Luck

"No man (or woman) should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning his true and hidden strength. - Learning, for instance, to eat when he's hungry and sleep when he's sleepy."

These old wise lines were written in the 1950's, by a Lonesom Traveller, an American Buddha and Catholic mystic. His name was Jack K. "Don't worry boy," a man once said to Jack K. on his way to a summer of perfect solitude as a Fire-lookout-man atop a high, ancient mountain,(his only company, the King Bear whose home was the ranging mountains of the Northwest), "these coulds'll roll away and you'll be able to see a hunnerd miles in every dirction."

The warmth and comfort of a home, the friends who, through their simple friendship, make you feel good and a sense of belonging, are not those feelings worth so much? And if we were to leave them, even for a little bit, what would happen? I am reflecting on all this because I know that in a few months I will wander on, and have to leave behind my love, my friends, and family. Physically I'll be leaving them all and migrating North, thousands of kilometers away, but because it is possible, as the poet William Blake wrote, "To see a world in a grain of sand, And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour" - Spiritually, they'll be within me, and never far away.

I am writing this only to wish everybody good luck getting a job, and moving to wherever they might.