Uncharted Territory
le mot du jour...
Dear Reader,
Have you heard the latest…
The not so much latest actually since the saying has been repeated again and again for the past four weeks at least.
People, this is it!
We are all lost on our wagons in uncharted territory or is it territories or sometimes they say unchartered waters which leads me to wonder how one maps a body of water. What, with the ebb and flow of the waves and the tides, it must be quite difficult.
But, I digress (as is my custom).
My beloved reminded me that, during the Great Plague, they invoked ‘‘Unprecedented Times’.
Is that worse than being Uncharted?
What does Uncharted mean?
You know how much I love words and etymology so, lets ask Dr. Google.
Actually, she is now called Dr. Ecosia because she says she plants trees and right now we really need more trees although how a search engine plants trees remains a mystery to me… another one.
“An uncharted area has not had a map made of it and has not been described”
Ok, so is this not the history of our species? Or what life is all about?
I mean, bands of humans wondered around for centuries slowly making themselves familiar with the land around them, then investigated further afield, and further yet, until they met a body of water and then, well they walked further along its shores, curious, always curious, charting, discovering what was uncharted.
This is how Columbus accidentally discovered the Americas. He managed to buy a ship and sailed into uncharted seas till he found land and the rest is history.
People, this is the way history is made!
With uncharted territories!
In fact, America was just that. Unchartered territories that people curiously explored and settled in.
So telling us we are in uncharted territories is rather exciting, isn’t it?
Rather than vaguely frightening.
Humans like the uncharted. It makes our imagination soar, our nostrils shiver in anticipation of the adventure to come.
Who knows what we will discover round the next corner, the next forest, the next mountain range, what treasures, what exciting new thing?
In this regulated, regimented, boring world of ours, we need to feel uncharted.
Look, we need to trust our senses, our ideas and notions of what is possible.
So, on this not-so-fine morning of this rather desperate unsummery summer here on my little island, let us hitch our oxens to our wagons and set off.
Those uncharted territories sound mighty attractive right now.
Onwards. As I have said sometime else, “we do not know where we are going but we are going anyway! “
At least, now there is somewhere to go
THE UNCHARTED!
Until we meet again…
As I started reading, I was unsure what territory your observation was going to head into, although the thought that, instantly, came into my mind was, how exciting to be in uncharted territory. A few week's back, I felt very differently, the journey ahead looking perilous. I feel we have trudged a very rocky path over the past decade or so, that or a barren desert, but am hopeful that we are now looking out over the potential for a green and pleasant land (if humankind doesn't do, as is its inclination, and destroy it).