Journal 17

I feel that I am constantly bonding with nature. I love to spend time outside. As you have probably already read in my previous blogs, one of my favorite things to do is go camping. When you are camping you spend all of your time outside in nature. I just enjoy spending time outside the feeling of the breeze on my skin and the freshness of the air just makes me feel alive. Being inside all day is one of my least favorite things to do. I hate it when I am sick because being outside will not help me get better. That is why I love being in sports so much. You never know what kind of weather you are going to have to run in or play in. I love all of the seasons in the year. When it is summer I love to play Ultimate Frisbee with my friends. In the fall it is obviously football. The weather you play in when you are in football varies from one hundred degrees to snow. My favorite time to play is when the temp is right around 50 degrees. I guess if I had to single out a specific time when I bonded with nature it would be when my family and I went to the Table Rock Lake for a week and went swimming, boating, skiing, tubing and cliff jumping. That is correct, I went cliff jumping. The cliff was around thirty feet tall and there was a second that was sixty. At first I was too scared to jump off the sixty foot cliff, but I soon built up my courage. The feeling of the grass on my feet as I ran towards the edge of the cliff and the hot sun on my body is indescribable. The feeling of regret was inevitable when I jumped off the cliff for the first time. I felt like I stalled in the air for a little while, and then I suddenly fell to the water. There was a sudden feeling of cold as I entered the water, but my body quickly grew accustomed to it. The way I bonded was this. There are a lot of dangerous things in the world, but most of them do not scare me.