Kristen Rowe - Ecstasy

9/16/2009

This blog refers to a couple weeks ago when Zoltan came to speak to our class, however long ago it has been, I still feel as if I should blog about it. When Zoltan first came into our class, I was wondering what he was going to speak to us about, and when he explained it was about his hikes, I was instantly intrigued. When he started to talk about his journeys on the Appalachian Trail and across Spain, I couldn't believe that he was actually here to speak to us about this because I feel like this was something you'd normally see on t.v. When he said he'd first started walking, he didn't know why exactly he was walking these trails, and then later he reached the Sacred Places that were at the end of these trails, he knew then. To be able to just choose to do something, without any reason of knowing why you did it, until you complete the task, is so amazing to me. I feel like we spend the majority of our lives, paying bills, and working ourselves to death, and we rarely get the chance to do something we actually wanted to do. Zoltan has achieved that twice already, and I don't think he'll stop at just that. I feel that if I were to have walked both of those trails from beginning to end, I would feel a sense of ecstasy. That I would literally be standing outside of myself and so filled with joy that I couldn't believe that I had just done that. One day, I hope to feel the same as Zoltan has when he completed his journeys because him speaking was truly inspiring.