Last year we had the privilege of returning to Tanzania for 6 weeks with our whole family. Among so many other things, we spent some time on safari in Tarangire National Park.
Our favourite moment of each day was definitely the afternoon game drive.
All eight of us would pile into the open top 4×4 and drive around the park for hours, open to spontaneity and without agenda.
You have to constantly pinch yourself at the richness of life all around, as you watch the sun slowly set over the rift valley, marvel at the immense beauty on display everywhere you look, try as best you can to follow the bumpy dirt track, all the while keeping an eye out for animals. Especially the elusive leopard!
Having visited this park countless times while we lived in Tanzania, it always strikes me how different it looks depending on the season.
Including the roads.
In the wet season, the grass is long, the animals can hide more easily, and the path ahead of you isn’t always clear. Or even solid ground! More on the time Anna and her friend got bogged for hours in another post….
But over time, the season changes. The long grass eventually submits to the increasingly harsh, dry conditions, and countless more tracks present themselves.
All of a sudden, you don’t need to be as dependent on one single path.
As i’ve continued reading through A Beautiful Constraint, this season we’re all in right now is reminding me of this principle.
Whether we like it to not, our decision to consciously or unconsciously depend on a particular path needs to be reconsidered.
This constraint we’re all feeling is forcing us to look for alternative ways forward. And as I said in my post last week, the way we show up (either as a victim, or a transformer) will hugely influence our ability to see clearly as we chart our way through this.
Which old roads are you still clinging on to, despite the myriad of new paths and possibilities that this new moment has presented to you?
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