Not all those who wander are lost
Date published 22 March, 2019
Perspective - This tree is not upside down
I love this tree picture.
Of course, I would do. I took it. But let me put some information around the picture. The route of the old railway line from Swalwell to Consett in the North East is, like many others, a great walk. The whole trip is somewhere close to 15 miles, but if that is too ambitious it breaks up nicely into smaller chunks.
If you start at Rowlands Gill,for example, you can walk up the track towards the B6310. This section is just 3 miles, but it does contact a fairly intact platform and some nice viaducts. You have to walk over them to follow the track bed, and as you walk up the line they become more and more like tree top walks. The final one is exactly that. You are exactly level with the tree tops, unless you are visiting 5 years after I wrote this and the trees have grown. And so, you can peer over the edge and get this view - from the top of the trees. It is the opposite way most of us see trees, and for that reason, I like it.
Sometimes we should do life like that, you know. It would refresh our take on things. Imagine if you looked at politics, or business, or lifestyle, from a completely different perspective. I was prompted to this muse when someone called out a particular view as being extreme. Rather than extreme, it was just very different to theirs. I am not trying to justify the 'extreme' position, just trying to help us understand why people might hold it.
But even away from extreme stuff, in your next business negotiation, or family interaction or a range of other stuff, you might find that if you manage to even briefly glimpse the situation from the other person's point of reality it might be really enlightening, and even helpful.
I suppose this might be like the relative who did not visit because I was too far away. You can all immediately agree that it was them, not I, who was too far away.
Anyway. Being near the top of the trees here gave us an even grander view of the Red Kites dancing in the skies in the early spring.
We are happy snappers!
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