The Wild West

While growing up, I spent some time in the old classic westerns. Louis L'amour is among the most famous of western writers and rightfully so. He is a man who knows how to put  a book together. The book Mr. L'amour wrote are always similar in more ways than one but they never get old. 

I remember watching Roy Rogers and playing toy guns like Clint Eastwood. Something about the Wild West always get the imagination going. The more I have had the opportunity to learn the west and the beauty found in it, the more I find this organized randomness. Yes, this sounds contradicting but I assure that it is not. 

The world in which we now lives seems to try and make everything a math equation. If you put in the work you will get the result. If you practice everyday, eat well, and exercise you can be a starting player on the football team. If you study, you will get a good great. All of these things are true of course, but in them lies a dangerous fallacy; life is a summation of your actions and the ending outcome can be determined by the preceding actions taken. 

In truth, the outcome of a given situation is influenced by more than simply our actions before it. There are unpredictable and random influences that cannot be planned or prepared for. I believe this is learned best in the country. No matter how good of a ranch hand you are, no matter how good of a horse breaker you are, no matter how well you can drive cattle, the animals and the ground upon which they live have a mind of their own.