There are many details that need to be worked out yet. Thru-hiking the Appalachian Trail was definitely a difficult decision to make. Just another older lady resentful of others because they are doing the things I wish I had been bold enough to do myself.ĭoing what I love as a horticulturist and designer. This confrontation in a way cemented my decision to backpack the AT, because she is the kind of lady that if I don’t do something quick to save myself I have the danger of becoming. After the realization that I have basically thrown the arbitrary things she holds dear to the wind, she desperately resents the fact I have done so.
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Upon further inspection, I realize she probably doesn’t approve of the fact I live with two gay men (one of whom is not Midwestern milk-toast white), that I adopted a maligned rescue pit-bull, that there is a Sidhartha statue sitting in the front yard, a list probably full of things I don’t even comprehend. I recently had a run-in with a resentful middle-aged lady, I was very much in the wrong, and I tried to apologize-but the way she handled the entire issue was astonishing. This has sort of led me to feel a resentfulness grow within me, and I don’t want to be a resentful person. Mark Twain and My Great-Uncle echoing one-another. But never really saw the opportunity to go on many of my own. I was always the saver, the one who had supported and helped finance many other people’s adventures. A wealthy great-uncle in his nineties once told me: “Emily, never not do something because of money. Money comes and goes, but memories will last a life-time.” That is something I sincerely believe but have never really practiced. Especially when it’s a six months spent in the memory-making business. When looking at it in the grand scheme of things, 6 months out of ones life really is not that long of a span.
When I look at the situation with my young eyes I think “How stupid, I need to work on paying off student loans and building my career.” When I look at this decision through the eyes of my parents (who are 100% supportive), I realize I need to do this while I am still young and relatively healthy. There really are a plethora of reasons why I have decided to do such a ridiculously stupid feat. The Appalachian Trail I hope will satisfy that craving. The elation felt then is something I hope to find on the AT.
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