You are wrong if you think Joy emanates entirely only or principally from human relationships. You are still going to live a long time, Ron, and it would be a shame if you did not take the opportunity to revolutionize your life and move into an entirely new realm of experience. Move around, be nomadic, make each day a new horizon. I fear you will follow this same inclination in the future and thus failed to discover all the wonderful things that God has placed around us to discover. But for some reason incomprehensible to me you wanted nothing but to bolt for home as quickly as possible, right back to the same situation which you see day after day after day. You had a wonderful chance on your drive back to see one of the greatest sights on earth, the Grand Canyon, something every American should see at least once in his life. You think I am stubborn, but you are even more stubborn than me. I guarantee you will be very glad you did. And so, Ron, in short, get out of Salton City and hi the Road. But once you become accustomed to such a life you will see it’s full meaning and its incredible beauty. If you want to get more out of life, Ron, you must lose your inclination for monotonous security and adopt a helter-skelter style of life that will at first appear to you to be crazy. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun. The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. I’d like to repeat the advice I gave you before, in that I think you really should make a radical change in your lifestyle and begin to boldly do things which you may previously never have thought of doing, or been to hesitant to attempt. But providing that I get through this Alaskan Deal in one piece you will be hearing from me again in the future. It may be a very long time before we see each other again. I hope that you will not be too depressed by our parting. Ron, I really enjoy all the help you have given me and the times that we spent together. That means I will be leaving here before very long, so I need you to send any more mail I may have received to the return address listed below. My friend, Wayne, wants me to stay working at the grain elevator through May and then go combining with him the entire summer, but I have my soul set entirely on my Alaskan Odyssey and hope to be on my way no later than April 15. I will not be herein South Dakota very much longer. It sounds like it might have been a lot of fun, but I don’t think you really understand these kind of people very well. I wonder if you ever got a chance to get out and see how many people showed up for the March 20 Rainbow gathering there at the hotsprings. It must be getting rather hot down there in Southern California by now. Some of the farmers are even already going out into their fields. The weather is not very bad and many days are surprisingly mild. I enjoy working here and things are going well. I hope that you made it back to Salton City without too many problems. I arrived up here three days after we parted in Grand Junction, Colorado. I have been working up here in Carthage South Dakota for nearly two weeks now.
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