We spend so much of our lives concerned with what is happening to and with “me”. Where you’re at. Where you want to be. Who did what to “you.”What you need to do. One way or another the ego keeps tapping on your shoulder…”me, me, me.”

But in the vastness of this world, you are nothing. In the vastness you have an opportunity to simply put “me” aside. It offers you the chance to just sit with the experience of feeling part of something rather than the thing at the center of it. Observe, and in our observations take stock of your insignificance. This is where you find peace. A break from the ego’s relentlessness. A space where you can find clarity. You can accept that your purpose is just being at peace with your existence.

I didn’t set off on this trip to find myself, I set out to lose myself. To set myself aside. To challenge myself to redefine what it means to be “me”. The places I’m spending time in humble me. They remind me that if my time here is really so insignificant, then maybe the plethora of emotions that one experiences in an average day should be equally fleeting.

This trip is something I’ve dreamed of doing for what has felt like a lifetime. The first question that came to me as I found the space to breathe was “why did this take so long to do?”. Today I find myself perched at the edge of a massive canyon. Snow falling all around me. I have no need to leave and nowhere to be. I have nothing I need to do and nothing that’s bothering me. In fact I feel at peace in the world that’s allowing me just to be.

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