My trail name is 'Seeks It'. Foremost among those things that I sought to gain from my ten months on the Appalachian Trail was that fundamental sense of awe - that magical feeling of connectedness with and oneness with the universe. Those moments of perfect fulfillment that you can get from things as tiny as a patch of green moss after a cleansing rain, a spider spinning its web in the morning sun, to gazing at the infinite sky on a clear starry night far from the interference of city lights.
In all my life, I've never been blessed with such an opportunity - to draw, daily and abundantly from this tap of pure ambrosia.
Sacrifice? Hardly! Here in the woods I drank with gusto from this infinite primal source. Every day! No wealth of kings can compare. No words can adequately describe ...
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