“Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter” – Izaak Walton, 1594-1683, English Writer
This quote makes me think about the Duke of Edinburgh Award. It has 3 levels: bronze, silver, and gold. To qualify for the award you need to do a Qualifying Journey. Since I did bronze, the journey was 2 days and 1 night. During the day I had to walk for 6 hours each.
This seems like a very long time especially since you are also carrying all you clothes and the tent the whole way. All of us were very nervous and didn’t want to go because it was going to be so long and exhausting.
But at the end it wasn’t all that bad. The bags were still heavy and the way was still very long but it all seemed better because we were in it together. We were talking, listening to music and because all of that it was much more fun and the way seemed much shorter.
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