Walk, don't run

A three-year-old's walking view

I'm a walker, not a runner.

I like the pace of it, the simplicity.

To some people, that sounds slack, like walking is taking the easy way. Not so.

Ask me to run three kilometres and I'll struggle. But walk 100k's? Done, no probs.

I used to run through life.

Fast-paced, ticking boxes, getting stuff done. Every single day was a chance to do, to achieve.

Problem is, a soul can't soak up life at that pace.

Now, I walk my life.

I want my life to be about the 100 kilometres, not three.

I take each step purposefully. I achieve things, just differently.

I'm catching up with myself.

Letting my soul catch up.

Sometimes I yearn to get back to the fast pace. To learn to run the 100.

There are so many things I want to do in the days and years ahead of me.

Sometimes I think that one day I'll be a force to be reckoned with.

Other days I don't know that I want to be.

And so I keep walking.

For now, I'm just a woman walking at a pace her soul can appreciate.