Do you ever have a bad day you can’t shake? Traffic makes you late, you didn’t sleep well, you were unnecessarily nasty to a colleague, too many meetings cancelled at the last minute. You get to the end of the day and you want to start it over. Get over it. Keep moving. Easy to say, not easy to do.
It has been raining for days here in SoCal. Finally a break in the clouds, so we got a chance to go for a long walk along the river. It’s brown. The homeless have clothes drying on the guard rail. Where are the ducks, the geese, the great blue heron? There are countless plastic bags and other trash caught in the grasses and trees – some as high as 25 feet up where the water crested from the torrential rains. We keep thinking we see a blue heron and it is a shredded shirt caught in the weeds.
2 ½ miles down-river, farther than we usually go on our river walks, we arrive at a café at the river’s edge. We’d heard there was one somewhere in this direction next to a bicycle shop and lo and behold we arrive. Paul finds that his favorite coffee roaster sells his fresh roast blends here and is a happy man. I find this little saying in the ladies room.
“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you MUST keep moving”. – Albert Einstein.
It occurred to me that I was staying stuck. I was stewing about the past. I needed to take action to get back in balance. I focused on the snow on the mountains and how clear and fresh the air was. One beautiful white egret and 2 blue herons later, we arrived back to the car and happily ticked off 10,000 steps.
Is there something in your life that is stuck? Is there a conversation you need to have? What action can you take to get back in balance?