30 Days Journal - Day 8

I am a terrible journal-er. As an exercise to become better, I decided to do a 30 day journal challenge for myself. Just like during my quarantine, I am using Isolation Journals for daily journal prompt.

Prompt: Write about a time when you had a pressing question and nature provided the answer.

For some reason, I keep thinking about “when nature is calling” when I read this prompt. When I think about nature, I can’t stop thinking about an essay I wrote in the past. It was about if I have to take a visitor to my hometown where would I take them. I chose to take them to a national park and seeing the fall foliage on top of a cliff. I can’t really remember any pressing questions but I have definitely thought about framing my anxieties that my fear has caused me while I look down at the beautiful nature.

During a period in the lock-down I turned to learning about space - as in beyond the upper atmosphere. It really started with listening to a podcast about new discovery for the Big Bang and one of the scientist said that many of the stars we see today on Earth has died hundreds of years ago - because of how many light years it is away. Then someone said, ‘so we are literally looking at the past’. That sentence stunned me. No matter how big we think our own problem is, compare to history - even just human history, this pandemic (so far) is a blip. It really did open my eyes up to a lot of questions and uncertainty in my life. I read up more about it through Stephen Hawking’s “Brief Answers to the Big Questions”, although some of the concepts are way over my head - it makes me appreciate the beauty of science and nature.