Trailblazing

While I no longer have access to the trails I cut through the local woodland, it was merely a symbol of something I’ve done for most of my life.
My woodland trails didn’t really go anywhere. One big loop through somewhat varying terrain, but it wasn’t about getting anywhere. The point was to have a place to walk, ride, but mostly to be alone and away from the normal distractions of our busy world. Everyone should already understand the importance of exercising the body, because what you don’t use, you lose. In theory, most people understand exercising the mind. Sadly, most of my world has no clue how.
It’s one thing to work the brain at puzzles, higher math, word games, etc. All good stuff critical to intellectual development. You can take it too far, but most people never come near far enough. However, that is actually less important than the one thing our world desperately seeks to avoid: introspection. Even when we do engage this, we do it poorly. The truth of that becomes all too obvious when you see so much the world engaged in destructive and self-destructive behavior.
I would willingly discuss and debate what constitutes destruction in that sense, but most of the world is too eager to let someone else decide it for them. When someone else reaches out to you with a packaged definition of important things, it’s virtually a guarantee it won’t be in your best interest. The whole point is the utter lack of debate, because of the utter lack of exploration. This is your soul we are talking about; why would you let someone else tell you what should be there?
I might try to teach you some basic structure of the soul, such as I know it, but the whole point is to get you poking around for yourself. I’m blazing a trail, not so you can follow. You can’t follow me very far into my soul, but I want to inspire you to blaze your own trail in your own soul. I could teach you all about the hand tools I use and for what sort of vegetation and mineral barriers they work with, and even how to wield those tools in uncommon ways. We could talk about muscular development and eye-hand coordination. Did you know you could swing a heavy ax at almost any angle and actually cut that way? I do it all the time.
I’d much rather you handle your own soul with some skill. The most important thing I can do is show you something about escaping your own personal barriers.