The Call Returns: When It's Time to Walk Again

From birth until we depart, every moment we experience marks the path we choose to pursue in seeking happiness and giving meaning to our existence. It’s a path made of daily steps, measured, small and light, but also of strides, leaps, and sudden changes.

Setting out again is blowing away the weights that have accumulated once more, to find freshness and renewed energy—that strange sense of peace that feels almost unreal, but also simply to observe, touch, and feel, because perceiving is more important than “forming an opinion,” judging, or thinking the world is as others have described it. It’s about re-learning to let go, remembering that we have little control over things, that each day something falls away and something is created anew.

We venture back outside, into nature, to extend our lives a little longer, but above all to make them more intense, to walk the streets, circle around houses, and change our perspective, paying attention to details, marvelling again and again, surrounding ourselves with beauty, reaching toward the sublime. Without hurry, listening to every heartbeat, every breath, grateful to be alive, for the feelings, emotions, and thoughts that turn toward the extraordinary.