Adapting to life's unexpected nature, by Forrest Galante
Meditative Story
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🗓️ 15 October 2024
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Jackals and leopards in the fields. The sound of a lion’s roar. Majestic African bush elephants outside the front door. This is childhood for Forrest Galante as a kid growing up on a farm in Zimbabwe. He’s adventurous and instinctive and connected to the living earth. But a sudden move to the U.S. puts him in a completely new territory. In discovering this new urban world in front of him, Forrest learns that the key for all of us, to key to survival, is to adapt.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi there, it's Rohan. For Mental Health Awareness Month, we're partnering with a few other |
| 0:05.3 | shows to bring you some resources that might support your own mental health journey. |
| 0:10.5 | This week, I want to share a little bit about a slight change of plans. It's a wonderful |
| 0:15.9 | podcast hosted by one of our previous meditative story guests, Dr. Maya Shankar. On a slight change |
| 0:23.4 | of plans, Maya blends compassionate storytelling with the science of human behaviour to explore |
| 0:29.9 | who we are and who we become in the face of big changes. Much like on meditative story, |
| 0:37.4 | you're here incredible life changing stories and timeless wisdom that can help you live a better |
| 0:44.0 | life. A slight change of plans is one of my favourite podcasts and I really think you'll love |
| 0:50.4 | it as well. So give it a listen wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 1:20.5 | One day, I'm walking along the track until park. When I see this beautiful glimmering bit of orange, |
| 1:34.0 | as a wild kid who grows up in the African bush, my eyes are trained to pick up things in the |
| 1:39.0 | environment that look different. I know immediately that orange flashy is the underside of the Tureka |
| 1:45.5 | Tureza. I hop off the boardwalk and into the murky pond water to get a closer look. |
| 1:54.1 | I'm chest deep and muck in a public park. Hikers walk by in their expensive north-faced |
| 2:00.1 | jackets and stare at me. But wildlife fascinates me and I'm determined to rekindle my connection with |
| 2:06.9 | nature. Even if it means looking like a lunatic to everybody until park. |
| 2:16.3 | A friend of mine, when naming one of her daughters, gave her the middle name Adventure. |
| 2:29.7 | So that when she'd say in the future, Adventure is my middle name, it would be true literally. |
| 2:35.7 | Now I don't know if Forest Galante has a middle name, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's |
| 2:40.3 | Adventure 2. Forest is a wildlife biologist, survivalist and the television host of extinct |
| 2:47.9 | to alive on animal planet. He has an uncanny instinct for tracking elusive animals and |
| 2:54.3 | halting their descent into extinction. In today's meditative story, Forest describes a life |
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