Resonance

"Your truth is a falsehood". These are the words an elder told me earlier today.

He couldn't fathom why I go hiking. That there must be an ulterior motive; something else I'm in the pursuit of.
Other "young'uns" who were there, appallingly, proceeded to agree with him. Daggers!

I tried justifying it. With haste, tried rationalising this interest that is now a self-embodiment of folly and joy. That there is more to it, and if only they tried, would see it from my perspective. That I'm in the pursuit of truth. That I am trying to understand God.

T'wasn't long till I saw how absurd this was. The harder I tried, the less sense it made for them.

I was suspended in disbelief.

"Why are you even bothering?", I asked myself. When I couldn't answer this, the path was clear.

There is no way I'm going to justify a passion. I just love it. That should be all. That will be all.