The Path Less Travelled
The other day I woke up to a particularly miserable morning. It was pouring rain, the sky was completely socked in, and it seemed like the perfect kind of a day for an excuse to forego my daily walk and laze around. In my mind I wrestled with the benefits of exercise vs the unpleasantness of the walk. I had lots of support to forgo my walk as a potential walking buddy that day cancelled and my family thought I was nuts to even be contemplating it. Finally, I had made my decision to go. Thinking that my daily walks start my day on a positive note. They are my sanity and the only quiet, alone time I can find in my day. After-all it was nothing a pair of rubber boots and umbrella couldn’t handle. So off I went and as I walked along the river in the falling rain I enjoyed the freshness of the air and the beauty of the water droplets dangling from the tree leaves. It would’ve been so easy to stay in the warmth and dryness of my home yet had I done so, not only would I have missed out on all the benefits of exercise but the beauty the rain had brought to the park. As I looked around I realized that I was almost the only person in the park which got me to thinking…
“If you want what others don’t have, you have to do what others are not willing to do.“
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