Take a Walk, Take a Thought

Morning Thoughts #257

What stops us starting, too often, is lack of clarity on how to finish what’s calling us to begin.

One way to combat this:

Take walks. Take walks in your mind too…wander the streets of memory as well as your city. And just like in the physical world, it’s better to take these walks in good (mental) weather. Curious, grateful internal strolls are better than anxiously ruminating ones.

Blocks of memory, walked long and randomly enough, often somehow lead to strange, beautiful ones you're seeing as if for the first time. Rumination, on the other hand, is like taking the identical path time and again, knowing the same alleys give you pause every time (and why wouldn’t they, when you’ve been mugged precisely every time you’ve passed them?)

Not knowing where you’re going to end up…except that it will be somewhere up.

Bad weather outside? Probably better to stay inside. Take a thought.
Bad weather inside yourself? Well, in that case, best to get out! Take a walk.

What am I describing? A meandering flow state?
Perhaps.

Let’s think where it goes.