My Walk: to Health!

The idea was that I was, that I was, gonna take pictures of things I wanted to talk about as I walked, but, someone forgot to charge they phone (or check if it had battery) before the walk, so I was left with: a damaged mp3 player, headphones, a dead phone, a wallet, sketching pencils and my journal. I decided to make the best of it, and be creative. Before i left the house and took of which direction I wanted to take my walk, I took out the journal and sketched a very badly done path of where I wanted to go and I relived that, theres a lot of blanks for me when it comes to the path I usually take, for example: I couldn’t remember what was right next to the store or… much of anything besides the way to get there, my mission: to figure it out. 

Usually I get home from school, take a bath and either go to the gym or for a walk to my favorite healthy food place after I’ve had my after school snack. Today I gave myself time to do both (it was leg day, you cant skip leg day). I got home from school took a bath, went to the gym, took a shower and went on my walk. 

I was gonna take some pictures of the first few things that I noticed, but like I stated before the universe was not having it. So I drew some to the best of my abilities (not much of it to be sincere). There was a bench I’ve never noticed and the restaurant even had a huge tree that i hand even payed attention to, and that made me feel kind of awkward; being in a place I was so familiar with and realizing that I wasn’t as aware of it as I thought. I give credit to my phone being dead, and giving myself the chance to look attaching for the first time ever, it seems. I gave myself the opportunity to not be in a hurry because I had things to do (even though I had this blog to do, but oh well, fight me).

Things and activities like this give you the opportunity to realize that the world is so much bigger that what we make it look, because we are too distracted with other, more ‘important’ things to give it the time of day or space for analysis. The overwhelming amount of technology we use and the lack of attention we give to people, and out surrounding; as someone who is so into fitness and wellness and health and everything to do with a wholesome way of life, it made me feel like I wasn’t fallowing my own ideals. I think we should all do this every once in a while. Turn off our phones and just, live a minute, out there, in the big bad unknown world. This accident turned out to help me (my phone is alive now by the way, he’s recovering slowly).