Open Your Eyes and the Benefits of Doing It.

When I say open your eyes, I don't mean for you to blatantly stare with your eyes almost popping out of your head. I mean to take in as much information as you can to see what the world really is and then step back to really see what's in front of you. To know that each molecule in something cannot be destroyed or created tells you alone that it has existed since the beginning of time it b itself has a whole story of history that it has experienced and so does everything else that you see. Once you can see like that you can tend to take appreciation into the things that surround you and to notice the small things, which make you more aware of your environment and in tune with nature. This will give you a new perspective on things and realize the importance of even small things and give you the ability to learn something new within every experience because nothing will always be exactly the same.

Within this picture what do you see? A forest filled with snow, or a story?

You can see that the location is down a hill and that there are trees that seem for the majority relatively young and some small undergrowth, which means that the plants in that area have been there for maybe 10 or so years besides the bigger trees which you know have been there longer, you can take samples to find out, but that and the structures in the back tell me that people probably use this area.

You can also tell the direction that the wind was blowing the snow if you see how it resides on the tree trunks. You can tell where the sun may be strongest during the day due to how the plants have adapted to grow and absorb their efficient amounts of sunlight. The list goes on.

You can use these clues and such to realize what is around you and the natural flow of things, then finally hone in on what is abnormal to this flow. Broken branches, compacted snow, parts of the snow on the tree trunks knocked loose and so on. These signs can give you the ability to track. It can also give you the ability to stay hidden, by knowing the natural flow around you. You can learn to blend with it and minimize the amount that you would normally disturb.

So Open Your Eyes, and see what's around you acknowledge it, and absorb it, and blend with it, but most of all appreciate it.