How Do You Decide To Turn Your Life Upside Down? Does Personality Count?

Or: a walk in France featuring The Da Vinci Code & Aliens. Sort of.

The photo above is where I was a few hours ago. I hadn’t really known that was where I was going to end up but I was in a funny mood. A you probably don’t want to be around me right now mood. A melancholy mood.

I couldn’t properly tell you why but seeing as there is a million and one things going on in my mind at the moment, it was probably any one of those pressing concerns trying to tap me on the shoulder and get my attention. So, I went out. For a walk.

I’ve always loved walking. But it’s one of the only ‘sporty’ things left that I can do these days. When I was a teenager, I caught glandular fever, which led to what was probably post viral fatigue and then — somewhere along the line — my thyroid packed up. Basically, I’ve gone a significant part of my adulthood with a depleted and struggling immune system. I don’t always have the energy levels I’d like.

But walking works for me. It’s the right pace. With running or cycling, the world goes by too fast. But with walking, it doesn’t matter which direction I look in, I find something of worth to look at. A lot of the time, I just watch my own feet. No idea why, but it seems almost memorising somehow. It’s rhythmic, it’s motion and it allows the mental space for me to drift off into my mind. To disappear in my own thoughts.

Yet, should I wish to look up and around me, there’s distractions to be found. Whether it’s people watching or enjoying the scenery, it’s something else to think about. And I like the random thoughts that pop in to my head.

So, I guess I just like the switching between the two. It’s life affirming when I’m in a good mood, therapeutic when I’m not.

However, the one thing I don’t rely on is that it will improve my mood. Which is odd, because it’s supposed to, isn’t it? I’m forever reading about how walking — because it’s a form of exercise — will help boost my state of mind.

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