Wake up walk

My walk this morning was wonderful.

Due to the clocks going forward at the weekend, it has gone back to being dark when I get up, with just the first signs of brightness showing in the sky.

It was fresh and frosty this morning and once I started walking I really didn't want to stop! I ended up taking a very circuitous route, because every time I should have been heading home, I took another detour just so I could walk a bit further.

I was ruminating on the difference between being alive and living, and I came to the conclusion that as living has become easier (think washing machines, supermarkets, mobile phones), being alive has become more difficult to achieve. All the "new" time-saving gadgets have meant that we are working harder to pay for them, so have less and less time to stop, breath, smell the roses and be alive! We take for granted that we will be able to pick up something easy for tea in the supermarket, and spend more time watching other people's lives on the telly than we do actually living our own!

There is something to be said for getting back to nature, and for switching off the tv and finding something that makes us glow inside instead.

Today I am grateful that there are lots of interconnecting streets around where I live! I could walk for miles and not go up (or down) the same street twice! Much better for ruminating!!!

Gratefully yours.
xx