Volcanoes and Glaciers

My husband and I recently travelled to Iceland. It is a beautiful country. So much unobstructed beauty of nature was incredible to see an be in. I feel it's a place I would like to live. Not Reykjavik but somewhere out in the country side would be idyllic away from all the hustle and bustle but in the quietness of nature. It's called the land of ice and fire and it literally is. There is tremendous amount of volcanic activity in some part of the island and then there is glacial activity. It's incredible and amazing. I was simply taken up by the country more than any other country I had visited so far.

One of most interested places we visited was an active volcano near a geothermal plant. I cannot remember the name of it even if I did I will not be able to spell it. But the magma chamber of the volcano is only 3km underneath our feet. The place of boiling and smoking. There were Sulphur pools and smoking holes on the ground. But most amazing as we walked further into the centre of the volcanic explosions were the lava formations from year of eruptions. It truly looked like a place from hell. Angry, dark and twisted.

I literally felt the power that probably shook the place but in a dark way. I felt sad and intimidated at the same time. I have never felt that way before. The way the lava was formed and rocks were pushed together and pulled apart, the smell, the burnt darkness of the rocks and the lava was very intimidating.

It felt like earth was angry and mean.

Then again I thought of human emotions. Isn't anger we feel is just as bad and ugly as those volcanic eruptions. I mean when we are angry, we feel dark and twisted and out pour our lava in words, facial and bodily expressions and many other ways. So is there really a difference between what you see on earth and what goes inside us? Like the glaciers we are calm and cool when we are happy and okay and like the volcano we are angry and boiling over when we are angry. I found that thought fascinating.