The Second Story Office

The second story office is a blessing and a curse...

In the second story office there is a view, a view of snowcaps and the layered mountains full of adventures just waiting to happen. Hunting trips not yet planned or fish that are just one cast away from peeling the line right off your reel. How can a view that pours so much inspiration and adventure also be the slow and arduous scratching of nails on chalk board, that only seems to dissipate when the windows are down and fly rods are bouncing around the back seats as I head up the windy two lane road.

Often time people think of having a top floor office with a beautiful view they think of all the hard work that it took for them to make it there whether it be, going to college or climbing their way up the corporate ladder. However all I think when I take a look out that clear two pained window is one word... "when?" When can the next adventure start. For someone who lives and breathes everything outdoors but is stuck in the city can feel as though a job is just a means to finance the adventures yet to come. A price well spent.

For those who don't understand the power that nature has on an individual, I hope this excerpt provides insight. The desire to be amongst the tall pine trees and endless flowing gin clear rivers isn't something of reason or logic. It's a calling that comes from within. Like the need for food and water, it's and inherent desire that can't fully be put into words. However it feels part of us, woven so far into our existence that it feels as much part of us as do our arms and legs.

The repetitious creditor of day to day trials and tribulations demands and takes from a persons psyche and overall wellbeing. When seeing the Sierras out my office window reminds me of this each and everyday. This really got me thinking, why is this? After months of pondering on this I have came to this conclusion. Over the last 300,000 years humans have roamed this plant in symbiotic relation with this planet and the unaltered state of mother natures magnificence. It has only been in the last 6000 years that humans have been civilized. Meaning 2% of humans existence has been working towards the world we have today and in the last 270 years the industrial revolution uses machines and industrial means to create goods for society. Which was the largest shift from living with to the environment to taking from it, there for changing humans relationship to mother earth forever.

Now by no means and I saying that it doesn't have its perks, this computer which I am typing on is a direct result of the endless creations that are a result of human ingenuity. But while trading the calming and spiritual experiences that are to be had in lands of mountains painted with trees, cliffs, and technicolor wildflowers for the florescent lights and stacks of paperwork; we forfeit an essential puzzle piece of our existence only to recapture it by being once again one with mother nature.