I’ve written before about how much I enjoy being unplugged and away from things. Here is another one.
Most days, weather permitting, I go for a 5km walk. It takes about an hour. I have a route worked out through my neighborhood.
I do it because it feels good to be outside, out in the fresh air, good to be moving. It’s exercise, but that isn’t exactly why I do it. It’s more just for the time away from everything.
I leave my phone at home, and head out with no distractions. This is my personal time.
Sometimes I look around at the scenery. Other times I contemplate a problem or issue I’m trying to work through. Most of the time inspiration just comes to me.
When I lived without a car, I’d go for a walk most days just to go about my business. Off to the post office, bank, grocery store, etc, and home again.
Now that I live in a quiet neighborhood and own a car, most of those errands are done with the car so I make the time to walk and unplug as its own thing.
I can’t overstate how much online and electronic devices occupy our brain cycles and suck our time. They’re good at that.
