Love & a Time Lapse Video Over El Tiede

From: webtenerifeuk.co.uk

 I'm going on a trip.

It's five months long. I'll be sleeping in a tent. I probably won't have a place to take showers regularly. I could get sunburned, bug-bitten, and bruised. There will be dirty clothes to rewear and the same oatmeal-in-a-pouch breakfast every morning. There may be precious little in the way of cell phone reception, internet connection, and clean water.

But I'm in love. So none of those things matter.

I unabashedly declare that I want to be wrapped up in fresh air, kissed by the sun and the rain, covered under a majestic Milky Way evening. It's one of the most powerful, awe-inspiring, life-giving loves that I've found in this mortal life. I want to be physically consumed by it the same way it consumes every spare thought. I can only begin to touch that in a five month trip.

Words rarely do justice to why someone is in love... but maybe this still-photography film will. If you remain confused, you need an intervention. Run yourself to the mountains, to a wild river, to the ocean. Sit yourself down and fill your lungs with clean air. Lie back on the grass and let deadlines pass like the clouds overhead. Birds will serenade you... you don't need your iPod. Things are constantly changing- you don't need your television. Nature is talking all around you- you don't need to text. Just fall in love.


Thank you to @savagemountain and @newhiker for sharing the video that inspired this post.