Endless possibilities

One of the main reasons why I love North Dakota is that when a person is on the prairie, he or she can be absolutely anyone at all. There is so much room to let go. There are no restrictions. There is nothing confining one to ideals or images or expectations. There is nothing but sky and land and quiet and nature and room to think. Nothing busy stands in the way, nothing obstructs your view, it's just you and the land. I'm not sure when my love affair with the land started. I'm not really a farmer, so I didn't grow up working the land or really even gardening. I just know that when I'm in those wide open spaces, I am in a place of perfect happiness in being just me and nothing else. There is noplace where I feel more like myself. There is nobody telling me what I should do or where I should go or what decision I should make next. There's no curves to think about, no obstacles to maneuver around, just me and the prairie. I often have said that I was born 100 years too late. I would have loved to have been a pioneer on the prairie with dreams, work ethic, and the breathtaking beauty of endlessness to drive me forward. It's so easy to get bogged down in school, the city, my apartment, or even my computer. But out on the land it's a different story. No bogging down. The guarding layers of who I try to be fall off and I'm left with just me. Sometimes this can be scary, as I don't always like just me. But I'd rather have the freedom to be just me and not like it than to be restricted to a preconceived notion and not like that either.
I'm not sure what I'm really trying to say or make a point about, but I just wanted to share my good feeling. There's no better place to be than on the flat of the prairie. God is so close there. It reminds me how big he is and how very small I am. It's easy to forget in busy-ness. But if ever I need to sit back and look at things from a distance, I know where to go.
You should come too. It's beautiful.