Lately, I found an interesting YouTube channel that was about primitive campingㅡespecially solo camping in winter. In truth, now I don't like camping because when I was young, in other words, when I was still full of curiosity about life, I had an experience of how to camp, so now I know how much it makes me inconvenient to leave a house, although I was able to directly feel nature on the ground.
Bedsides, when people camping, plenty of heavy camping supplies such as food, tent, lamp, bedroll, etc. have to be carried off. Hence, these days, many campers might dislike leaving for camping in a primitive way, instead, they might want to utilize a "trailer whole(mobile home)" which is fully equipped with camping tools. Such mobile homes maximize their comfortable camping.
Now I like watching someone's camping adventure via YouTube channel or TV indirectly, empathizing their camping experiences as a sympathetic viewer. In the meantime, I subscribed to one of the solo camping channels which let me be cheerful for some time.
He, the young YouTuber, looked like an American or Canadian because his English was not British English which has a peculiar pronunciation and intonation. He seemed to avoid the urgent quarantine over camping, whereas many Americans are dying especially in New York due to coronavirus contagion that is the tragic news I have watched via TV..., even it has frightened me; those who put on white protection suits were loading the dead on lorries and burying the dead on a certain island(by-corner) in the US en mass...
Who would know in advance that "the microscopic and invisible virus" would be overspreading to the whole world?... The microscopic virus looks like an invisible world war to massacre people... As a result, the corpses are being piled up; even I read the tragic news and saw the photo of the packed corpse in a blue plastic bag... Such corpses are being dumped on the street in North Africa... Because people in North Africa cannot even pay funeral expenses... No one cares about the dead...
But the camper was not there, he was in the beautiful snow-covered forest with his lovely dog that was a setterㅡ unfortunately, I have no idea what kind of dog he has.
His channel made me cheerful as much as the camper was cheerful at that time. It seems to lighten life's burdens for a while, so such channels look more popular than any other channel, for this reason, lots of subscribers are watching them. Recently I got to know it.
I saw the beautiful winter scenery in every direction; the heavy snowing from the sky, evergreen trees, firewood, flaming campfire, feeble winter sunshine, the murk of night, snow-covered field, dinner cooking, was a chicken-pasta, and his simple bedroll. In a similar fashion, he was sharing everything he owned in a beautiful landscape in one night. He had a lot of camping equipment in that place.
I felt like I was in there really, and thereby I enjoyed all the things via his channel before sleeping that night. It was like picturesque scenery, a quite different world, like the short story of Rip Van Winkle( Washington Irving, USA, 1819). When Rip Van Winkle was dead asleep for a while after drinking the wine that the elves(the spirit of the dead) gave him in the woods, in the meantime, everything, the whole world of America, was changed as twenty years quickly elapsed, for Rip Van Winkle was bewitched by the world of the elves like that...
It was likely that I became Rip Van Winkle himself, who was bewitched in the woods. Because I was bewitched by the channel, staying overnight with the cheerful camper and with his lovely dog where it was snowing all night long in beautiful winter sceneryㅡthe bosom of nature...
On one hand, humans ever miss and want to explore a primitive nature instinctively, on the other hand, go against nature or its providence and destroy nature only for the sake of men all along, that is a human-centeredness.
However, I think that nature is always with "The Creator", so that sometimes it embraces such a selfish human, contrariwise, at times exterminates men like the ripple effect of coronavirus pandemic all over the world... Such incidents demonstrate how weak humans are when facing the invincible power of nature.
The wrath of nature and the bosom of nature,
Both are coexisting again today...
Where are we going?
Return to nature!
ㅡJean-Jacques Rousseauㅡ
( 1712~1778, France)
( 1712~1778, France)
We may want to be enfolded in nature,
the bosom of nature...
Deep in our hearts...
the bosom of nature...
Deep in our hearts...
Shalom
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