I don’t remember now where I found it, maybe my classmate Kate posted it in her Facebook feed. But I liked it so much, I copied it and saved the document on my desktop. Now, while going through the big number of notes and other random stuff that has ended up on my desktop lately, I found it again and thought: This is perfect. Now. For where I am.
One final paragraph of advice: do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am — a reluctant enthusiast, a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic. Save the other half of yourselves and your lives for pleasure and adventure. It is not enough to fight for the land; it is even more important to enjoy it. While you can. While it’s still here. So get out there and hunt and fish and mess around with your friends, ramble out yonder and explore the forests, climb the mountains, bag the peaks, run the rivers, breathe deep of that yet sweet and lucid air, sit quietly for a while and contemplate the precious stillness, the lovely, mysterious, and awesome space. Enjoy yourselves, keep your brain in your head and your head firmly attached to the body, the body active and alive, and I promise you this much; I promise you this one sweet victory over our enemies, over those desk-bound men and women with their hearts in a safe deposit box, and their eyes hypnotized by desk calculators. I promise you this; You will outlive the bastards.
– Edward Abbey
This is what I’ve been doing here. Appreciating. So that I can go back home later, and be smart, and fight for the land, and live.
Katja Malmborg 