Conclusion

When I told people what I had done, they most often asked me,

“How was it?”

I would think, ‘How was it? How can I answer such a question?’

I just had a ‘year long’ experience and they are saying, ‘How was it?’.

I feel like that is a sound-bite question, for an essay answer.

How was it?

I sought to answer that question.

In the process I have, hopefully, stirred up more questions.

We were told many times during the course to ‘be as a question’.

If a person only seeks answers, they might find them.

Then the tendency is to stop searching, because they ‘found it’.

But, when a person continues to ask questions,

they continue to search, and they ‘draw closer to the understanding’.

The ‘year long’ was a small expedition within my life journey.

It took some effort to get to this point,

but my quest is not over.

I continue on.

I think of this experience as one of the most revolutionary things that I have ever done.

At least I would say that it is in the top five.

But, I am not going to compare one with another.

What’s the point?

One time, while I was talking about loosing the most weight,

or some other such thing, Ty responded with,

“It’s not a contest.”

That statement has stuck with me.

I like it.

I am willing to share more about my experience.

Yet, not with the emphasis on what I did ‘back then’,

but on what I am doing ‘now’.

The many lessons that I learned are with me now.

They are alive in me.

I shall close with my motto.

Truth, Wisdom, and the Sacred Journey.