One of my frequent struggles when doing the 10k steps journey is the series of temptations to give up on the walk. Here’s how it works. You walk on the sidewalk, and you walk by a bus stop. The moment you’re there, a bus stops, and it goes to the co-working space. It will be there in 5 minutes, and if I kept walking, it would take me 20.
This was the evil bus that tempted me today. As it’s clearly written on it, the direction is hell.
Lots of the reasoning behind my radical walking approach is that walking only doubles the time it takes to get anywhere, compared to a bus or a car. You need to get to the car, clean it from leaves, drive in the traffic, find parking, pay for parking, and so on, and so on. However, if you are already at the bus stop, and there’s a bus conveniently waiting for you to hop on, there’s no cleaning, waiting, parking or anything. It’s like a teleport to the final destination. The only reason to keep walking would be that you want to walk, you want the pain, and the fitness that comes with it.
I chose the hard path because I value persistence and I have a long-term goal of achieving the 10k, and eventually being able to climb Vihren again. If I took the bus today, tomorrow I’ll be tempted by a bus that will arrive in 1 minute. Or a taxi. Or my car that’s parked right in front of the building. The path back to the car brain mentality would be wide open.
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Stay strong😜
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There’s also great health benefits to walking!
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I hope so 🙂 I hope I don’t get run by a car with this walking obsession.
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Stay safe, friend!
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Thanks, you too!
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When I lived in Armenia, I walked EVERYWHERE. It was mainly because the public transportation was so unpleasant. It was always packed, sometimes with foul smelling men who wanted to grope any female in the vicinity of them. We did a lot of walking in Sofia, too, although I was definitely tempted by the taxis more than once.
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Armenia sounds awful 😦 I hope the culture improved since
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Yeah, when we went last year, I noticed it had improved a lot. I’m not saying all men were gropers, either. It’s just that in the 90s, they would always try to overload the busses and metros. It was not pleasant, even being mashed up next to a woman! But I don’t think the country is as poor as it was back in those days.
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Poverty is not an excuse for sexual assault on public transport 😦
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Of course it’s not! However, that country was closed off for 70 years and I know from personal experience that people there tended to think of western or Russian women as “loose”. As bad as it was in Armenia, it was much worse in Turkey when I visited (1996). I still enjoyed both countries, though. I would love to visit Turkey with husband.
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Türkiye is very touristy these days, although who knows what happens if you step out of the tourist cities
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