Heavy rains were predicted for today, so yesterday I made an extra effort to get out and power-walk for a bit. Normally I get all wired up as soon as I get out of the car. I fire up my GPS, put my cell-phone on extra loud and plug my head into my Zen MP3 player.
For reasons unknown I just grabbed my hiking stick this time and just got on the trail. About a quarter of the way through my walk I heard the wrestling of leaves and got sidetracked watching a pair of squirrils play just a few feet in front of me.
It was amazing how they were totally oblivious to my being there and just ran around me as if I was just another tree. (Was glad they didn’t try to climb me!)
Once I moved on, I realized that I didn’t heave my headphones on and if I did, I would have totally missed this experience.
So now I question if my next walk will be with or with the phones? Thinking about it, I believe the habit was was picked up out of bordom when I used to simply do laps in the park. I think what I’ll do now is change trails when I get bored and keep the podcast listening for work.
As for the GPS and cell phone… well I just had to twitter so the cell was on and loud and the GPS was booted as I wanted to record some coordinates in an effort to organize my walks.
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November 16th, 2007 at 8:16 am
Sometimes we miss out on the best show that is provided to us by the simpliest things like the 2 squirrels. Maybe we need to re-learn to “tune” in to the serene or quiet side of Life. What is the saying? The best things in Life are free. Can’t beat that
November 18th, 2007 at 11:04 am
Wow, that’s a great quote.. “Sometimes we miss out on the best show that is provided to us by the simplest things” - I’m going to steal that line for another article
November 20th, 2007 at 10:58 am
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