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How the Blue Skies of Norway Helped Change My Life
One outdoor activity at a time.
I injured my leg in 2022. I had also been suffering from tennis elbow for about a year, so I decided to give my body a break from intense workouts and try daily walking instead. It was the start of spring, but the sky was already as blue as it could get. My skin, free from all the layers I wore during the cold months, could finally feel the sun’s warmth.
After ten weeks of walking for 45–60 minutes daily, my body felt much better, but what impressed me the most was the effect of walking on my brain. It helped me think clearer and made writing the beginning, ending, and everything else between my blog posts easier. It helped smoothen out the wrinkled thoughts in my mind.
That information would come in handy one year later.
Mental healing
To make a long story short, I felt a person dear to me let me down. On top of that, I am stuck at a dead-end job. My golden ticket out of that job was supposed to be freelance writing, and it’s safe to say even that has not gone how I wanted it to.
That led me to a dark place. The lowest point was when I brake-checked a tailgating car while we were both going over 120 kph on the highway, fully…
