Spending twenty-four hours walking through the jungle with two people of few words, gives you the time and space to think. Indeed to experience all the senses, but above all the time to reflect. Sometimes it’s the very fact that you are spending the majority of your time on survival alimentary tasks that leads you to think, at the very least, that all that other stuff you were thinking you had to think about, you actually don’t.
I’ve always been incredibly intrigued by people who don’t make lists (as similarly as I get incredibly excited when I meet someone who is just as frenetic a list maker as I am!) How do some people get through life so well without them?!
My life has always been very list centric, but increasingly I’ve noticed that writing everything down actually doesn’t always help. Perhaps life should be considered a bit more like a walk through the jungle rather than a production line with productivity being the main aim..
Everyday as you walk through your home territory you instinctively notice things that need to be done. A bridge mended, seeds harvested.. and sometimes there is time and sometimes there is not as dinner needs to be caught. But a note is mentally made and seemingly a minga (working party) organised to complete such tasks.
I often wonder how the two cultures work together., one of list makers and the other of slowly getting things done. Is one better than the other?
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