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sonatime · 12/17/2025, 3:11:51 PM · permalink

My excuse for how I feel about walking takes me back to childhood, it often clashed with my patience, and even early on I needed a side distraction to be able to tolerate it:) True story. Sometimes the environment would provide enough stimuli to take the edge off. I know it is/was a flaw/weakness. Company, dog, thoughts, weather, would help. Otherwise for exercise, I need something more intense, sadly even for running I would choose treadmill and music with my own thoughts over being outside and paying attention to the environment. I guess I judge people who walk alone, and equate it to a needy state, something of vulnerability on public display, instead of wholesome physical activity. And in a world that might not understand you at all, why show it:)   
  
I’m not sure I can bring myself to fully romanticize whole societies. As a kid, I couldn’t wait to grow up, mostly because I imagined adulthood would bring freedom. But to enjoy any society, I think you have to lower expectations, or better yet, avoid knowing people too well. Distance can appreciate humanity from afar, and maybe imagine it as scarce and precious, like time itself.   
  
Unexpectedly to me, I’ve started appreciating simply observing nature, probably because, if you don’t focus on the fights and clashes, it feels wholesome and serene. Nature relaxes and calms me and lets the mind wander freely. Even the landscape almost doesn’t matter as long as there’s a lot of it to see. Maybe that kind of appreciation really only comes after being stuck in an urban environment for too long.  
  
The pictures I posted were a random search, and I didn't check the background, but one captured a church forgotten by civilization and reclaimed by nature, and the other evoked a peaceful, imaginative rural life. I couldn’t resist including the dog, where your lack of affinity for them is well known:) Abandoned places always feel a little haunting, the my mind immediately tries to imagine what life could have been like there before.  
  
I’m working on stepping away from judging people. I’m already ruled enough by my observations, likes, and dislikes. Sometimes it’s best to leave things to the positive possibilities we can imagine, and hold on to a bit of hopeful optimism in humanity.

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