They told me that it was going to be a big change, but isn’t change all around us? I, personally cannot live without change. In fact, the only thing constant in life might be change.
I spent years in isolation searching for truth, years going up and down those mountains. Without other human beings for days, I had plenty of time for reflection and realization. Will I ever find truth? They say that it’s about the journey, not the destination.
I was given no direct guidelines for his quest. The ambiguity made it very difficult to do it correctly, but it also made it difficult to do it wrong.
Absence is nothing, yet it can mean everything. Absence can make you appreciate what you take for granted, or make you realize what you don’t need.
Time is a very powerful idea, but I realized that it was just that: an idea. Being up in the mountains for so long, I had lost track of time. There was no use for it. If I wasn’t keeping track of time, then who was? There was no one around for days. And if no one was keeping track of time, then did it cease to exist?
They say that only about twenty or thirty percent of what you communicate is verbal. Perhaps the tone of your voice? But what about before language was invented? How did humans communicate? They say that animals can sense when we’re happy, sad, angry, that horses can feel when we’re tense and uncertain. So are we then somehow communicating with them? Was I somehow communicating with this mountain and its creatures?
Did I do it right??? I don't think i put it in the right place...
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ReplyDeleteI really enjoy reading all of your pieces. I really liked this a lot. I think that the idea of being alone in the mountains is really scary but can also be so enlightening. I love how you ask so many questions and how you respond to them. I like your comments on change, ambiguity, absence, time, and communication, all of which are very complicated ideas that are always interesting to discuss. I really like how you thoughtfully interpreted each one of them using someone who has been isolated for years to answer these impossible questions. . I also really enjoy how you describe change as the only thing constant in your life. It is so interesting because change is literally the opposite of constant but what you say really makes sense. Your answers to these concepts are so deep and really made me think about all of them in different ways. I also really like how you suggested that time may cease to exist if no one was keeping track and how you may be somehow communicating with not only the animals in the mountain but the mountain itself. This was such an interesting piece and it really got me thinking. Great job!