The sense of place

When we are on vacation, or watching a mesmerising sunset, hiking or spending our free time outdoors, we get a sense of being, of being close to nature and of belonging to a place.
That sense is also what is lacking if we do not balance up our rational mind with this experience of true identity to land in our daily life.
It is a poor substitute to have a disconnected rational view of patriotism, or an ideology’s false sense of land, replacing the true personal experience of an inner sense in relation to a place. That inner sense is what we share as individuals with everyone else. Our true identity is not any combinations of collective identities like sex, race, social class, vocation, nationality, or religion. What we really share is that inner closeness to place, a true sense of being it. Of nature in ourselves. If we disconnect ourselves from that personal identity which is derived from this one context, we also miss out on having a true relation to land. We will start to look at it in a one sided rational way, and in rational concepts of ownership as in ideology, nationalism or religion. Or just as some infinite resource to fuel the growth of market economy with.
A consequence of this is that we are loosing our sense of being in ourselves. Of being in a true relation to a place. We are losing out on the essence of our relations to each other. And to life.