Editorial – Why the need of a magazine?

“It’s nonsense!!”

The response from the first orienteer I shared the intention of creating a magazine exclusively dedicated to Orienteering topics hit me like a whip. Subsequently, I received a few more responses of the same kind, either directly or more subtly, and I began to seriously wonder if this idea, which was born sometime in my youth and then gained momentum as I saw similar magazines published in other countries, is indeed nonsense.

The typical dualistic principle, like “you can dig or you can not dig,” pushed me more towards the latter option because it’s always easier to remain in anticipation, to do nothing, perhaps explain to others “how it’s done,” and pass by yet another challenge of life like a “swan through water.”