How to
choose between the Grand Canyon and a spontaneous road trip to visit a friend?
Don’t! write about them both :)
I believe
I was in high school when we went as a family to visit the Grand Canyon. I
remember it being one of the most incredible things I had ever seen or
imagined, and to this day it still is high on the list.
One thing
that sticks in my mind about that trip and experience was from one of the hikes
we went on. I have always loved water (always as in from infancy – as in my
parents used the sound of it to distract me so they could change my diaper and
hearing it would often make me stop crying). On one of our hikes, I noticed a
small dripping sound. When I located it, I saw the beginnings of a stalagmite
(that’s the one that builds from the ground up, right?).
It awed
me – that a tiny thing like a drip of water could build a totally new structure
over a long time.
I wanted
to remember that, and to emulate that. To know that with consistent, and often
seemingly so small, effort I could do incredible things. Things that seemed too
hard at first. And to remember that even seemingly insurmountable things are
possible with perseverance.
Years
later I went back to Arizona shortly after graduating undergrad. A number of us
were living in Utah for the summer, and one of our dear friends was living in
Arizona and having a bit of a rough go of it. So we packed ourselves into a car
and drove down to visit, as a surprise. She was definitely surprised! It was
such a cool thing to be a part of – to see her, to have her show us her part of
the world, to leave her with her spirits lifted.
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