Nature and Nurture
Early morning is the best time to explore. As the world slowly wakes up, getting back on its feet for a new day. Everything is so fresh and peaceful and there is not a care in your mind because if you are the only one awake, there’s nothing to fill your mind with worry.
As the sun beats down upon the earth ever so gently you can breathe in, filling your lungs with the new day’s air. Bare feet against the dew covered grass, you can feel as it laces between your toes bending and weaving in between the cracks.
There is nothing to distract you from the simplistic beauty of the natural world that surrounds you on all sides. As you close your eyes, you feel the gentle breeze lazily roll across your exposed side stimulating your soft, warm skin. The hairs on your arms stand up as you’re fully embrace the serene world around you. In this moment, you can be truly free from the ties that make you human and you can once again glide through the vast unexplored world that is nature.
Every forest, every mountain, every unique blade of grass will be enhanced and recorded through your newly opened eyes as you walk aimlessly, simply absorbing as if you were once again an infant, being exposed to the world around your body for the first time.
But, as the world wakes and other join you, breaking into your secretive world if nature, all that you have been engulfed in begins to slowly fade. Interactions begin and countless distractions arise before you. A sense of responsibility overrides the child-like feelings you had so shortly prior experienced.
You are no longer free in the world around you. You have been reduced to nothing but a slave to the social norms set in place by the members of a society that grasps you within its clutches every day. No matter how much you may resent this society, you will always feel obligated to abide by its rule and regulations. For if you do not, one would claim you to be a savage and you would be cast out immediately; never to return forever wondering why your free thoughts have forced you into the life of exile you dread so greatly.
