I love being outdoors. My passion for nature began when I was a little girl and would visit my grandparents house every Sunday night for dinner. Their house is atop a hill and further protruding is another hill my cousins and I always climbed. There were no trails or paths up, we made our own by climbing through the brush and tall grass until we made it to the top. This was my favorite part of the whole hike due to the view. We’d look one way and see the city, laid out like a board game, then turn the other way to see more hills dotted with trees. Having a bird’s eye view was an amazing perspective.
Climbing up that hill all those years made me fall in love with nature and all of its beauty. As I grew older, I started to explore new trails. There’s something unexplainable about hiking in a secluded area with no car horns or traffic noise, but rather the sounds of the wind blowing through the trees and the birds singing up above you. It’s incredibly peaceful and therapeutic to get away from the stress of the outside world for a bit, to just live in the moment of enjoying nature and being alive and able to experience it with friends and family.
I love how when you pass by fellow hikers on trails, you don’t simply ignore each other, like what usually happens in our busy day to day lives. Instead, everyone politely says hello and moves to one side, giving each other room to pass. The outdoors just seem to bring out the best in people.
I prefer the hikes that really make me work and end with sore achy muscles. Every painful step the next day is a reminder of the day before. It adds to the feeling of success and triumph in accomplishing more advanced hikes.
Some people like to hike at a slower pace and stop periodically to take in the scenery, but I’m not one of those people. I’m slightly impatient and prefer to grasp the scenery as I hike, moving ever so fast to get to the top to enjoy the view. We’re so often focused on what’s going on in our lives, that we can sometimes forget there is a whole world out there. Seeing an area from high up reminds me of this.
If you ever get the chance to go hiking, go for it. We only live once anyways.
Climbing up that hill all those years made me fall in love with nature and all of its beauty. As I grew older, I started to explore new trails. There’s something unexplainable about hiking in a secluded area with no car horns or traffic noise, but rather the sounds of the wind blowing through the trees and the birds singing up above you. It’s incredibly peaceful and therapeutic to get away from the stress of the outside world for a bit, to just live in the moment of enjoying nature and being alive and able to experience it with friends and family.
I love how when you pass by fellow hikers on trails, you don’t simply ignore each other, like what usually happens in our busy day to day lives. Instead, everyone politely says hello and moves to one side, giving each other room to pass. The outdoors just seem to bring out the best in people.
I prefer the hikes that really make me work and end with sore achy muscles. Every painful step the next day is a reminder of the day before. It adds to the feeling of success and triumph in accomplishing more advanced hikes.
Some people like to hike at a slower pace and stop periodically to take in the scenery, but I’m not one of those people. I’m slightly impatient and prefer to grasp the scenery as I hike, moving ever so fast to get to the top to enjoy the view. We’re so often focused on what’s going on in our lives, that we can sometimes forget there is a whole world out there. Seeing an area from high up reminds me of this.
If you ever get the chance to go hiking, go for it. We only live once anyways.