DENSE SOUL (glimpse) · South Africa · 2017

Fenced in by elbows for much too long, his escape from civilization was a matter of survival. The city’s plots were convoluted and twisted, and their fragile pleasures could never carry the entirety of his dense soul. Spinning inside that centrifuge of light and diluted realities, his core got pushed outwards to the societal rim, the first and final frontier, where his heavy heart began, finally, to gravitate towards nature’s pull. The city had had it all, but nature had something more, something more existential, something truer. Neither cruel nor benevolent, the plots of the wild were simply what they were, honest and pure, written by life and his conscious partaking in it.
 
 
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tags: Drakensberg, South Africa, nature, mountain range, rock, cliff, hike, valley, canyon, cloudscape, green, travel, scenic, scenery, picturesque, wilderness, adventure, backpacking, living room, horizontal