There hasn't been much to do since everyone was told to mostly stay at home. Have you noticed? And, if you're like me, you've put on a few extra pounds, too. To try and combat this, for a while I was walking in the mornings with a few of my neighbors. If we do full loops of the two sections in our neighborhood, we get about two miles total. Not too bad. We've recently given up due to the extreme heat of July, but for a while there, we were faithful to it. My closest neighbor pointed out that we were walking a lot of miles this summer, but not really getting anywhere. That started my brain spinning, of course. Was it true? In some ways, yes. Because, even though we were clocking ten to fifteen miles a week, we hadn't walked any different locations than we did the day before. We always ended up right where we started. Seems rather redundant, doesn't it?
But in other ways, we were getting places. Not geographic locations, mind you, but accomplishments. We were gaining a healthier lifestyle. It's something I'm missing now that we've gone on hiatus during this heat and I need to find something to supplement it inside, but haven't figured out what just yet. We were gaining friendships. It might seem strange for me to go walking with women twice my age, but the stories they tell and wisdom they share is something I treasure. And every now and then I could share a tip with them, too. Everyone comes from a different background and learns different things and can share something, even if it's just a better way to freeze squash. We were fighting the stir-craziness of being cooped up with our families all the time. Just 30-60 minutes a day away is sometimes all a person needs to be able to go back and be with the same people again and not lose their minds over every little thing. So, you see? Even if you don't feel like you're getting anywhere doing the same thing over and over again, sometimes you are anyway. I'm sure there's lots of situations in life we could apply this to. How about you? Are you repeating yourself and still growing from it? (and I don't mean just gaining weight by repeatedly eating ice cream. LOL!)
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