mother nature at its best

Life as I know it

It is 2014 already and I’m going into my third year of conservation and all i can say is what an adventure it has been. I've been lucky enough to see things that people either fear to see or dream about seeing. I feel that i have chosen to go into an industry which basically entails that other people have to pay to go to those destinations but im lucky enough to get paid to work at these places and teach in a way for a living for the mean time. At the moment im still studying to make sure that my future can be the best that it can be for in nature the most important thing is to never stop learning. In the last year I've seen giraffe mating and the young suckling which if i think about it now the baby i watched suckling is probably or could be the same one i saw being conceived. Ive been to close for comfort on foot with buffalo and rhino and lions and hippo and the scariest would be leopard. I’ve been lucky enough to attend classes or talks on different animals such as white back vultures and chameleons and even leopard which opens your eyes so much and you realize you have a long way to go still. I have walked straight into a breeding pair of leopard and had a leopard walk straight under my seat of a game drive cruiser where i could smell the death of the breath of this killer animal. Ive been lucky when we were driving through the timbivati to see wild dog which i was saddened when my guide told me this might be the last time i see wild dog in the wild due to the fact that their numbers are dropping dramatically. My eyes have been opened really wide when it comes to nature and learnt the lesson quickly that when you stand in the way of mother nature you will get messed up good and proper to put it in a frank way. I’ve seen now how nature works itself out and what humans are actually doing to the bush by stepping in and intervening with nature which i don’t believe in but it takes a strong person to watch an animal die and not do anything about it. Life’s lessons have been tough and i learnt the hard way that love is one of the most difficult emotions to deal with and no matter how careful you are in life love is inevitable and sneaks up behind you and stabs you in the back. But i learnt how to keep my chin up and learnt what true friends are and the most important thing that ive learnt in my personal life is that family no matter what will always stand by you and love you no matter what. I know it sounds wrong but im glad that me and my sister have moved out the house because even though its tough on our parents for now i can see that my parents have more time for themselves to do things by themselves and do new things which they have found new passions and loves. My Dad perused his passion for nature and my mother tried something different but fell in love with her new hobby which makes me so happy to see she is happy and in her own little world. i am so grateful that my parents are so supportive and stand behind me even though ive lost or damaged 6 different phones which i know pisses them off to the max. My family i love so much from my grandparents down to my youngest cousin which all have a special place in my heart and nature has a huge part in my family and feel that I am happy to go into the this line of work. Want to say thank you to all the people who had a place in my life from the day i was born till this day. Even though i don’t speak to all my old friends it never meant that i forgot about you but there will always be place for people in my life. And remember “Man sacrifices his health in order to make money, then he makes money to recuperate his health, and then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present ; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future, he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived" - The Dalai Lama

So live your life and never take one moment of your life for granted because you never know when yours will come to an end or people in your life will be taken away from you because you never want to live life with regret.