{"id":1942,"date":"2021-06-23T12:36:32","date_gmt":"2021-06-23T12:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outdoorpandit.com\/?p=1942"},"modified":"2021-07-13T02:14:50","modified_gmt":"2021-07-13T02:14:50","slug":"op-series-2-meghan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outdoorpandit.com\/2021\/06\/23\/op-series-2-meghan\/","title":{"rendered":"OP Series 2 – Meghan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”3.22″][et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.25″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.9.7″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” custom_padding=”||0px|||” hover_enabled=”0″ sticky_enabled=”0″]
* Your feet are but followers of your imagination *<\/em><\/p>\n <\/em><\/p>\n The OutdoorPersons (OP) series continues with some thoughts expressed by my son Meghan. I started taking him out in the hills right since when he could hardly stand. Then came a time when I left it to him to \u2018take up\u2019 hiking and climbing or not. He goes when his fancy takes him. And going by the few things I know, he has found his own joys in the outdoors. The OP series is about people who are not necessarily famous or have remarkable achievements that get talked about. But they do light up the sky once in a while like meteors that streak across a purple sky, quite often unseen and unadmired. Each outdoorperson has his\/her own \u2018deep play<\/a>\u2019. The OP series is homage to that individuality and an attempt to have colourful characters blaze across our skies.<\/em><\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/outdoorpandit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Looking-back-1d.jpg” title_text=”Looking back 1d” align=”center” force_fullwidth=”on” _builder_version=”4.9.7″ _module_preset=”default”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.9.7″ _module_preset=”default”] When I have no particular place to be at while walking on a trail, it is extremely easy for my mind to wander off it and for my feet to follow. Once I leave a trail, there are thorns, boulders, thick shrubs, mossy slabs of basalt and loose rocks that tumble down the slope, threatening to take me with them, but that does not matter. By this time, I have decided that I do need to be at some particular place and I am going to figure out how to make it there. I have to crouch, crawl, slide and jump, but, this is only when I am not stuck and do not have to stop, take a look around and decide I have to go back a bit and see if I can find a different path. And this is the real challenge.<\/p>\n Before I go out, my father usually reminds me to take a look back once in a while to see how the path looks from the other side. Even while walking on trails, due to my lack of experience, I often find myself lost, despite having followed the advice. Recognizing the same scenery from the other side, which the mind has never seen, is a formidable task. Now, add a layer of excitement to this and replace the trail with, well, what is not the trail.<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/outdoorpandit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Looking-back-2.jpg” title_text=”Looking back 2″ align=”center” _builder_version=”4.9.7″ _module_preset=”default”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.9.7″ _module_preset=”default”] Every time I stop to take a step back, I probably end up somewhere I have never been before. Of course, the severity is not consistent for each such incident and sometimes I can retrace my steps, but it is in this labyrinth that I keep going deeper.\u00a0<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/outdoorpandit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Looking-back-3.jpg” title_text=”Looking back 3″ align=”center” _builder_version=”4.9.7″ _module_preset=”default”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.9.7″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ sticky_enabled=”0″]