To What End is Nature??

It is what grounds me back into the ground on which I stand. In these fast times it is far too easy to forget entirely about nature, what it entails, and where it lies. We are constantly and consistently engulfed by technology and man-made, processed resources. The boundless "conveniences" that are available to us drain our spirit and in actuality hinder us instead of instilling a positive affect. In this world, at this point in time it is not possible for all human beings to live without any form of dependence on the many conveniences that surround us but with too much concentration on the artificial, there becomes a void of the sense of what is natural. If we never are able to experience nature and the outside world, no good can come. There is no possibility to have a fulfilled life entirely built on artificial foundations. We need that connection. Technology creates a false sense of happiness and completeness because technology provides us with everything we think we could ever want, but because of the endless production and re-production, it never stops; we never stop wanting and "needing". Unless exploited, in nature we don't have that endless desire, we cannot dictate what it will do or bring, all we can do is wait, see, and react. All these conveniences do for us is pull us farther and farther away from the truest truth, and that is nature. That is the gift that nature bestows upon my shoulders, the ability to succumb, succumb to the loss of control and the sense of power. Whether the day brings sorrow, fear, joy, or anxiety the wilderness that surrounds me can always bring me back into myself, back into a place that is open and at ease. There is a barrier that can be built between your true self and the version of yourself constantly influenced by the outside, consumer-driven world, if we are exposed far too much to this superficial world we lose ourselves, nature, never without fail, can break that barrier, because it is the only thing that is constantly consistent, it is and never will be corrupted or shallow.