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Bean soup
It’s been awhile 🙂 I post photos of the bean soup that’s sold in the Cherni Vrah shelter as a mark of achievement that I managed to get there one more time.
The mountain was moist, slippery and foggy today. It rained a bit and I even had a chance to walk in hail for about a minute or two. Thankfully, no thunders. Found some berries.
Build a fountain and they’ll come
It rained today, the kids needed things, and I only managed to have a walk in the evening. The park was empty. It was kind of depressing, except for this fountain that spread light and color. I hope it serves some purpose other than me noticing it in the early evening.
What’s a topic or issue about which you’ve changed your mind?
Daily writing prompt
What’s a topic or issue about which you’ve changed your mind?
Memories are not set in stone. They change and merge, slightly twist and bend the past according to our needs. I recently discovered that there was no way I played Heroes of Might and Magic 3 in high school, given that it was released 2 years after I graduated. I always thought that this was the game I played the most as a kid, and there’s no way it happened because the years don’t match. I probably played HoMM3 later and my memories of playing HoMM1 and 2 merged with the third version. This twisting and bending is a good thing to be aware of when holding strong beliefs.
Here’s an issue where I keep changing my mind. I hated cars and though I’d never have one. Then I got a small one (Clio 1). I lived in that thing, drove it so much. Then I got a larger one where I co-habited with a mouse. Then I got an SUV. Got back to a family sedan. Then I thought electric cars are the future and started looking for ways to own one. Followed Elon Musk on Twitter before he got political. Then I realized electric cars are still cars and you move 2 tons of iron and plastic to save yourself a few minutes per day at the expense of your health and other people’s health.
Now I think cars should be used as a last resort. People should rather ride horses than drive cars for their daily commute. Who knows what I’ll think on the same subject next year.
Meanwhile, walking gives me content like this for my blog. Had no idea there is an autumn crocus.
The Temptation of the Bus
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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