About three months ago I made a comment to an acquaintance about trout fishing being so important to me and he dismissed it. He said trout fishing was the least important thing he does in life and I shouldn’t make it so important. I wholeheartedly disagree with him.
Many people go to church to feel spiritual and be in touch with the universe. I go into the outdoors to cleanse my soul. All the things in life that bother me are melted away about a hundred yards from the truck. The fish are only a bonus in the whole scheme of things.
Thank you for this post. Three years ago my wife passed away leaving me without any children or close relatives. I thought I was handling things pretty well until one day a friend took me fishing. We sat on the bank casting worms and fishing for perch in rain storm. Thanks to my friend Zeke I was able to get back with fishing and not dwell so much on the negative aspects of life.
Nothing so much energizes and enlightens the soul as that of being out in nature, being around trees and the forest, especially if a beautiful clear water stream runs through it. Churchianity/religiosity/superstition is not even in the same league with it.
What was that old sage saying from someone long ago … “God is not the author of confusion … religion is.”
