Just Keep Walking...
A couple days ago I posted about walking and my aching ankle. Yesterday, I walked about 16.5 miles and the ankle was fine.
My toes, on the otherhand...
I didn't feel it while walking. I had a great walk, and could have done 20 miles.
When I got home, I didn't feel it. I took my shoes off and was telling Cynthia that I wanted to walk four miles with her before the day was over, because I wanted to get 20 miles in.
At some point, I looked down at my right sock and thought, "That's a lot of blood..."
I won't go into the details; it looked worse than it was.
I didn't care about the blood--I kind of liked it, in fact. It was a reminder of how good it felt to walk and walk and walk...
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I walked four miles tonight.
I shouldn't have walked; I should have rested.
But I needed to walk tonight. It was very breezy with some very cool looking clouds.
I needed the weather, and I needed the walk...
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I've talked about the importance of dropping things fairly recently.
The Mighty deaconmc recently posted about the importance of failure.
It's a little similar to what I said in my juggling post, but what floored me and another person who read Deacon's words is how failure can be more worthwhile than succeeding.
I never looked at it that way--I always looked at the end of the line and the success waiting for me if I worked hard enough--but Deacon's way of looking at things always hits me where it counts.
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I've been walking a lot, lately. I've been feeling better than ever, even though sometimes the walks have hurt. Walking the trails where I first really started walking when I was probably 130 pounds heavier and could barely walk any distance has reminded me that--just like dropping things while juggling or "failing" at something I've written--a simple walk reminds me that sometimes the best you can do is just keep moving forward.
One foot in front of the other...
Repeat as necessary.
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Yesterday my right sock looked like I lost a toe. I didn't lose much blood, but it looked pretty gruesome. It really didn't hurt.
If you just keep walking, eventually all the pain goes away...
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I need to drop a bunch of stuff again because juggling is who I am...
I need to find failure that is worth more than succeeding...
And I need to just keep walking...