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Reflect and Remember…and Then Carry On
This morning I was out walking and the thought came to me that I had never taken this same exact route before. Years ago…
Years ago, beginning in 2006 when I left my former life as a classroom teacher and real estate broker/residential appraiser I walked every morning for a full hour. I was in a new city with so much natural beauty to explore and loved finding new areas where I could walk and think and talk to myself and plan what I would write about once I had returned back home.
One day I stopped taking those morning walks. Everything stopped and now I can’t remember how or why my routine changed as it did. I only know that the results were not in my favor. I gained back all of the weight I had so diligently worked on losing over a two year period prior to beginning my new life. My aches and pains slithered back into my body. And, worst of all my thinking became less clear and my focus waned. Because these changes come slowly and in small increments I wasn’t aware of what was occurring until it was staring me in the face.
So today I reflected on my life, in bits and pieces without a timeline or the benefit of a time stamped magnifying glass of truth as we tend to do when we are in our head and figuring things out.
I wondered why it is seldom that we hear about a CEO or a politician or a thought…
