Hot Springs

Upon answering this question, I had to ponder for a while. Although I have gone camping, hiking, walking in the woods, I have never felt “thrilling, magical, or enchanting.” I never cherished the environment and the non-human world. I guess one thing that sticks out the most is the hot springs. I come from a town where hot springs are very famous and a lot of them exist in a short driving distance. My family and I love the hot springs—yes these hotels are human-made, but the hot springs they have are natural, no chemicals added. Depending on what the hot springs have inside, it is said to improve health, moisturize skin, and much more benefits. Just this past summer, I was given a chance to go to a hot springs for an overnight event for my internship. I was stressed and anxious at the same time, and I needed sometime for myself to relax and forget everything that was going on. I woke up early in the morning to enjoy the hot springs by myself. I felt relaxed, made me forget about stress, and gave me motivation for the day.

I think a lot of people in the United States do not have a chance to enjoy and experience the hot springs, as they are not a common culture here, but hot springs is definitely an experience that you should have. If you have a chance to visit a hot spring, please take that chance!

“Saving nature” is something that we should concern ourselves with. I think there are many ways to interpret this question, but I believe that no, we should not provide too much chemicals and human made whatever to the nature to preserve nature, but we should conserve what we have and first try and rebuild what human population does to the environment every day. For example, not littering in the forests—this also ties into recycling. Also, conserving water, electricity and any other energy used in everyday lives. Use public transportation and much more. I think once everybody (this is ideal, not realistic) do these small things every day, then we can figure out what must be done by chemical and technological means. But in reality, it is impossible to persuade everybody in the world. Maybe, the convention-protocol approach should be applied here regarding conserving nature.