[at-l] Quick Insight Dept.: Caving, Denial, Hiking.

[tmcginnis@ucclan.state.in.us (Thomas McGinnis)]

     Just blurting out:
     
     Caving is like hiking in terms of light and negotiation of (life's) 
     obstacles, because if you do even a small cave, especially if you can 
     reduce your available light to a minimum, and allow yourself to get by 
     with the least amount of light and still be comfortable, when you turn 
     the final corner to the mouth of the cave and receive even a hint of 
     the abundance of light in normal "daylight" conditions, it looks so 
     incredibly bright, and colors look so incredibly alive......
     
     Like when we're hiking...
     we deny ourselves the usual measures of comfort, shelter, clothing, 
     food, even hygiene, and certainly in the contemporary era, the mind 
     candy presented by TV and radio.......and when we return to 
     "civilization", things can seem pretty "bright" -- certainly, even 
     conditions of comparable urbanized "poverty" can seem conditions of 
     abundance to a hiker.
     
     Quick thought.
     Have a great one.
     
     Sloetoe
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