As I walk down the street in Cancun, I notice how my shadow seems to get smaller in every step under the hot blue skies and the Mexican sun.
One of my favourite things to do has always been walking, not only because we kinda of learned it naturally as kids, and because generally people have been do it for a few thousand years now. But also because there is this great feeling about walking somewhere, taking your time, ditching your car and walk for a few hours, and putting yourself through the painful task of getting back.
I always had this feeling that when I walk my brain works better, I can appreciate my surroundings; observe all the little details that turn that place into a special place. A little kid wearing a read shirt playing outside, the dogs lays lazily as you walk past, turn around to the next corner, the doors of the house next to you are open turning you in an unknown guest for a few seconds. Walk a bit further, listen to that great sound of a unheard song pulling you in, taking you somewhere else you have never been. And it goes on and on.
Have you ever thought about it? How many great things have happened to you when you are just walking about, following your own steps? Without those earphones in your ears, just taking in what the world has to offer. Or how much trouble you got yourself in, by walking 10km instead of 2km in a old forgotten corner of the world located in Northern France, in the pitch black of a January night when all you have is a little torch to guide your steps?
It’s like this great time for thinking, it’s like inspiration is able to come in, say hello and the little thoughts running loose inside your mind find a way of connecting, a chain of mysterious hidden views you didn’t know you had stored inside you. You find perfect sense for things that wouldn’t be linked otherwise. It’s like your brain is feet operated and each step makes that strange wheel that generates great thoughts spin faster and faster. It’s a natural ecstasy sponsored by your mind, provided by the world.
It makes your thoughts travel from outside to inside and you find yourself randomly thinking of how much the tabs you had opened the previous night on your Internet browser say about you. Gmail, Photo Tips, Amazing Travel Stories, YouTube playing the classic 80’s song: “I just died in your arms tonight” and Women’s Adventure Travel. (Yeah, well we all know I had FB open before but it wasn’t open then.) I guess it doesn’t really require much explanation…
Your feet take to where you need to go and by taking you further, your mind gets clearer, by walking down that dirty road, your thoughts get cleaner, every new step brings you closer to the next turn in that road, and slowly the world becomes yours to explore, one road at a time.
Time to go walking.
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