For the first time in ages, the back of my rig is void of anything fishing. Not one rod or fly box. Nothing for ‘just in case’. I have been busy with life’s duties and obligations. Just the way it is. The passion is too engrained to just evaporate; too many years. Right now it all seems out of focus. Or is it? See that escape to what feels best is alive and well, I believe.
Messages abound, signs that even a brief escape would be beneficial and soon. Like yesterday…a sign…I was exiting the freeway, headed home. I saw a sign. A contrast of sorts that begged for more simplicity, more nature, escape.
Half naked young women performing a car wash at a nude bar, other young women ‘soliciting’ for dirty cars on the sidewalk, as cars passed by. Next to them, a large white limo in the lot. The limo appeared to have carried a large family (old and young dressed in they finest). They were laying flowers, wreaths, balloons on the lot…holding a wake of sorts, next to car wash event. Such event planning. A spot where last week a young man was shot to death. Some ambush & revenge issue from the ‘hood.
The contrast of it all was not some terrible theater of life that causes confusion, questions or stress. No, it was almost comical, humorous and ‘interesting’. That was when, as I drove on, I said to myself…’self, you need to get your ass out of town soon and fish’. Yep, that’s what I said. The weirdness of the city must be endured yes. But, to endure it, one must periodically escape to the greater chapel.
This is a very interesting post and it couldn’t be more true. The very concept of society I think is something that most of us just accept that we must live with today forgetting completely there used to be a time many thousands of years ago when people lived in hoards and were nomadic never to settle in any place for too long.
So many thousands of years later the virtues of living together in fixed settlements has become some such a standard means of living that most don’t even consider what it would be like these days to try to escape society. That’s not to say nobody does, but the majority of the 7 billion inhabitants of Earth today probably never give it a second thought as they are as someone else has already pointed out, “self absorbed” in all of the pressures involved with living in society today.
It’s amazing to me actually how many of the so called problems we are plagued with today are directly related to living in society in other words the very concept that we are not self sufficient and that we must rely on others to provide stability to our own lives.
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Well you can judge like that, but not a good idea…. you better wet a line soon before it starts rubbing off on you 🙂
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No judgment…simply observation/comment.
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What’s it you folks say over there? “Keep Portland Weird” huh.
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Well, you can’t judge a town by its nude bars, gang warfare and the self absorbed class.
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