Some perspectives

Geocaching, as I know it, as changed a lot in the last, let’s say 2 years. At least here in Portugal.

I’m not an old player of the game, I guess I started on the end of the first and memorable years, where the people who went for the search of these “treasures” where just a few, who have heard about this from other friends, and what we had to search for weren't many, but memorable caches, located in wonderful places.

 

As everything that becomes bigger and bigger, and with more people involved, it changes… When I start thinking about the numbers, well, our days are great, we go out and in a few hours we found more than100 caches, but the memories we keep from it are almost none. A very busy day, running from one place to the other, but not anything special that comes with it.

In fact, the human nature is like this, we want more and more, and sometimes we just want more to have more, not to have a “better more”.

I’m in this game and I’m not complaining, once I play by the rules, but I do have great memories from the past, and in our days they become less interesting.

Anyway, all this just to mention that I went with a friend to find just one cache. Like in the old times, and by the location, by the adventure, it was much more memorable than the 100 I’ve found a few days before.

Great landscapes, that makes you want to more and more photos, but at the end you look into the photos and seems that you couldn’t capture all the beauty of the place. Going on the wrong direction for some time, but not complaining, cause it was a great adventure. Searching for the cache and listening to the water running on the waterfall.

  

I’m so sorry that today moments like this are not so easy to find, so easy to enjoy, but it all depends in the way we face the game, and for sure I guess that sometimes it’s better to have  a stop, and restart, making the right choices, the ones that in a way will allow us to have great memories. (I guess I won’t remember about the 999 caches we can find on sideways of a very busy road… but who knows…)