The Importance of taking a Walk and enjoying Your Journey
Seriously, go for it. Save this to your reading list, dress appropriately for the weather, take nothing but your keys, and take a walk to nowhere.
Having just returned from a walk myself, I can confidently say that I should do this more often. Fully ignoring the obvious physical benefits, taking a walk will give you time to think (or stop thinking). The important thing is to not have a destination or a goal or your phone or music, or anything. Just walk for the sake of walking.
You can take a walk on a familiar route, and look for something new there, something that you haven’t noticed before. Or take a walk somewhere you’ve never gone before, and look around, look at all those people who all have places to be. Enjoy the fact that you, right now, don’t have anywhere to be, because you’ve made the decision that you’re just walking.
In life, we focus on objectives and milestones we have to reach, often forgetting to enjoy and appreciate the journey to our destination. And that’s the beauty of taking a walk to nowhere. You don’t have an objective, so you take care to enjoy the journey itself.
Ask yourself this. When reading a good book, do you ever think: “When’s the ending gonna be here?” Life should feel like a good book, you never want it to end. You want to keep reading, and enjoy the journey.
However, life can often feel like a bad, boring book. You find yourself forcefully turning the next page, thinking: “Ok, I just have to finish this chapter and then I can finally put it down for the day.” And sometimes that’s okay, even a good book can have a few boring chapters.
But a good book will never leave you feeling glad that it ended. A good book will leave you wishing for a sequel, or leave you wishing that it never ended in the first place. And the best thing about all this is the fact that you get to write your own book.
Though you will find that you have this annoying co-author that goes by the name of Life, who can sometimes write in a few chapters that you would have liked to avoid. You shouldn’t worry about that though, since Life is what will make sure that at the end of your book you will feel proud to read it out loud to someone else.
So if you still haven’t, then go and take a walk, and write yourself a nice, relaxing chapter. Enjoy the journey. I guarantee you that you will come back home with something of value.
