FAT PIGEON HAS RETURNED I MISSED HIM SO MUCH 🥺

hiiii, hope you’re doing good! i remember you’ve said that you like to go on walks and i was wondering what that looks like for you? i’ve been in kind of a slump lately and i’m trying to be healthier and more productive and i wanna start going on walks bc i think it would be good for my mental health BUT idk what i should do! i guess what i’m asking is: how long do you walk for? do you listen to music or just walk in silence? do you go every day? do you walk to a destination (like a coffee shoo or something) or just until you get tired? sorry if this is a lot but i see you as someone productive and with your life together and it’s inspiring 💗

hi!!!!

how long: so how long i walk really depends on what my body needs. during the pandemic and before school and work started, I was walking for about 2.5-3.5 hours at a time, like 9-12 miles...it was insane BUT i had the energy for it! bc i wasn't working. i was just sitting for hours and hours a day writing. now, it really depends. some days i go for 1-2 hours, others I can only go for 45 mins because it's what fits in my day/how much energy i have to give. I think setting a minimum helps. i always go for at least 45 mins (that seems to be how long my mind needs to relax/ how long i need to calm down if i've had a bad day or something has happened) and then if you want to walk more, i do. if i don't, i go home.

I always listen to music. ALWAYS. my mom and aunts love to walk in silence and just listen to like, the neighborhood or whatever, but i can't. i use my walks to work through some stuff, work on my wips for both here and school, brainstorm ideas, or sometimes i even just spend like 3 hours in my fantasy world that's typically saved for when i go to sleep lol. i need the music to tune everything out so my brain can just wander. almost all of my fics have come from what my brain does on a long walk.

i used to go everyday, but now i go when i can. I'll go on days I can't make it to the gym, or days i just cannot bring myself to go. I always go if im having a bad day, or on days i know i'll be spending writing or doing homework in order to break it up.

so i have a route in my neighborhood that i developed over quarantine. to get to my towns main st and where the coffeeshops and library are, i would have to cross the high way and i hate doing that lol so i just walk my route until i don't want to anymore. it's nice because my body just goes on autopilot now, like muscle memory, and i don't have to think about where im going, but i'm just completely in my head. but my friends who live in the city will do like landmarks. they'll walk to the park, around a certain section of the park, and then back.

thank you for thinking i have my life together <3<3<3 i'm trying to be productive always, but not to burn myself out, which the walking absolutely helps with!! if you start walking, i want updates!!!