Roads. We use them each and every day in some way. I walk on my road to get to and from school and drive on them to get to and from places around town. Roads and sidewalks, they are kinda sad really. Something with no voice or authority is telling you where to go. It's giving you a path and it's not letting you feel the earth under your feet. How incrediably sad is that? I walked to work yestesrday and I cut paths across campus and didn't take a sidewalk or path for a small portion and I felt like a different person. For that breif moment I felt like i was breaking some type of rule and people were watching me as though i were some type of criminal or escaped convict. I just wanted to feel that earth under my footsteps. I felt successful afterward and wanted more. So next time you are walking (and you have strong ankles of course) take the unbeaten path. Dash through the wilderness and feel like you actually did something different for a change. It's what it was ment for...to explore and to connect in some way even if it's by walking through it. DO IT!
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oh sabrina, this makes me recall the days when i worked at physplant...i would bike down from hair house, cutting across the grass so i wouldn't hit the hoards of people on the sidewalks.
today, as i was walking a bit in downtown ABQ, i walked across a patch of dead grass, and i imagined what i would say if the person who was in the office (whose lawn i was walking across) would come out and yell at me for walking on the grass. it made me think of all those signs in "important" places around the world where it says "please do not walk on the grass." why the heck not? i wonder what kind of world this would be without sidewalks...probably amazing...
p.s. i walk/run in the road most days. of course, i'm to the side where cars won't hit me, but still...i hate sidewalks.
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