Journal #17 Bonding with Nature

One time I bonded with nature. It was a big surprise, because that does not happen very often. I went camping with my friends on a weekend. They had a camper that we stayed in, or we could choose to sleep in tents. Even though we wanted to stay in tents, we decided that it was too cold and we were going to stay in the camper. Before we went to bed though, we made a fire outside and huddled around the fire in our blankets. We were all warm and making s'mores. We ended up staying up for hours and talking about everything in our lives. We were one with nature. We went on a hike to look around the campsite. Since I was new to the site, I was showed all the trails and everything we could take. We were definitely bonding with nature at this time. Another time that I bonded with nature was I was at my house. There was a full moon outside and the night sky looked so beautiful. I was with Kirsten and Arianna. We were dancing in the street, and acting weird like usual, but that's just us. We were tired, so we brought pillows down from my porch and we laid down on my driveway. Our heads were all in the middle, and we were facing different directions. We sat and watched the stars for a few hours. The planes went by really fast. We watched for shooting stars and the big and little dipper. We brought out hot chocolate too. We were bonding with nature then because we were outside, looking at nature all around us. We were appreciating everything that was around us. Another time I bonded with nature was when I went night swimming!    We were bonding with nature then because nature was the only thing around us. We had the midnight sky around us and we had all the nature sounds. Even though the sounds got annoying at times, it was almost relaxing. Mixed with the water in the pool, nature just completed the setting.