Walking out in the morning

Summary: Walked to PN's place this morning, need to do casual walking more often.

Taking walks has been one of the simple pleasures I've come to appreciate in these tough times. Long ones are fun, particularly when there's a river nearby, with greenery and cool trees and birds. Again, one of the reasons I've started missing Boston: we live three-minute walk from a river which has a pretty cool trail, so totally worth spending an hour each day. If not that I could walk to friend A's place. Or walk all around the old Boston town. With a good mask and a little care, walking out is such a good hobby. It lets you think clearly and appreciate your surroundings more. The days I don't go on walks don't feel right.

The other day I gave it some thought and realized that morning walks are actually kinda' awesome. You see people hang out get the cool fresh air and clear your head before the day even starts. A natural refreshing beginning to a day. It makes so much sense now that people enjoy going to each other's houses for the morning tea: having the destination motivates the trip, but it's the trip that's important. The destination just happens to be a great side product.

Thinking of meeting P at a park between us every morning, taking a couple of rounds there, and going to his place for some morning tea (or having him over, on alternating days). Beginning a day like that is what we'd do in Kathmandu in regular times anyway, and it's great I'm tilting towards that. Walking is even more important, particularly for someone like me because I'd otherwise use the commute time in the orange site and reddit and that's the worst use of my time possible. Usage of those sites has significantly gone down for me thank gods.

So yeah, gotta take more nice long walks and learn to think clearly!