Us and Our Nature Deficiency

So on Thursday I ventured outside for a walk. You can read about it here.

It was fun. So much fun, that I actually forgot to mention some of the important stuff. 

Like, how the trees that I walked under down the street smelled. I could smell pine, but there were also other tree smells intermingling that I couldn’t make sense of. I thought I was going crazy when I first got a smell, but then I breathed in deeper through my nose and could identify that I was not going crazy, but that it was the nature around me that I was smelling. I could also smell the storm. I could see and here it clearly enough, but then there was this strong smell of water in the air. The two combinations together were powerful and they made me appreciate the fact that I was alive and outside, walking.

A few days ago, I had read this article on Crazy Sexy Life about nature and how humans should get back to it. The main points were that humans in general are suffering a nature deficiency and we need to fix it by going out and communicating with nature. Hanging out with her, enjoying her presence. Shock, horror, I know. But it’s true. Yesterday I realised that while I was on my 

walk. Being outside, just going for one walk around my 

neighbourhood, made me just as happy as sitting on the couch watching Gossip Girl for the whole day had done. I spend possibly 6 hours on the couch watching a t.v. series. I took a 30 minute walk. Both results gave me the same amount of happiness, if not more from my walk. Unnormal? I think not. Yes, it’s nice to unwind from the day with some mindless humour on tv. Point is, I hadn’t done anything with my day to unwind from. I was simply relaxing for the whole day. Yet, my walk perked me up more then what my casual resting did. Clearly, I need to continue this walking situation. I’m still going to keep my gym membership as well, and just use both to establish a routine. 

So read the article from CSL, ruminate on it and see if you can better apply it’s points to your life. Then see how much better you feel. 

Butterflie kisses,

Rosa.