"The Loss of the Creature" by Walker Percy

I am going to have to agree with Walker Percy and his article regarding our trips and what we look and see when we go. When describing the Grand Canyon, there really is no way that you can grasp in a picture the entire awe that you feel, just standing there and looking out at the vast canyon, that just seems to stretch on forever. So many of us, are so eager to take a snap shot and try to keep that bit of our trip on paper, so that we can maybe remember a bit of what we felt when we actually LOOKED out at what was surrounding us. We are so interested in trying to capture what we can to show others, that we forget to actually just stand that and really enjoy what is standing right before us.

So many of us are sheep, and follow others on where they went on vacation, and the things that they have seen. Don't we really want to see something that no one has every seen before? Don't we want to see something that we can only see when we go out of the safety of the boundaries set for us? I know that if I choose to go to Hawaii on vacation, there will be snorkeling and surfing and boats with glass bottoms for me to do. There is a part of me however, that wants to see something out of the ordinary. Part of me that does not want to stay on the straight and narrow (minded) path, where someone tells me what I am seeing. I want to be that couple that Walker Percy talked about; the ones that got lost in Mexico and accidentally found a village that they never would've found otherwise.

Wouldn't it be fun to know that by letting go just a bit, we could see something that we never thought possible? Wouldn't it be worth it, just to sit the camera down or the map down, and become part of our surroundings and truly admire the world for what it is?