“You wake up at Seatac, SFO, LAX. You wake up at O'Hare, Dallas-Fort Worth, BWI. Pacific, mountain, central. Lose an hour, gain an hour. This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time. You wake up at Air Harbor International. If you wake up at a different time, in a different place, could you wake up as a different person?”
This quote from Fight Club is a parallel to the experience one could find in nature. Going into the wilderness allows one to fell what otherwise would remain dormant within. It is a way to break free from the bounds of society, an escape from the mundane. A journey into the wilderness, a pilgrimage, is a way of letting go. It allows people to establish the foundation of oneness with spirituality. After going into the wild, much like in the rites de passage one can find their self in a liminal phase; after the separation phase an prior to returning through the aggregation phase. This pilgrimage allows for a reanalysis of ones life, a reprieve from the day in day out, a chance to get away. Traveling through nature opens a new world to people that may not get a chance to so easily find out who they really are.
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