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Everyone’s Hustling — But No One Believes In It Anymore
You Are Not What You Do — And That’s the Whole Problem.
I have been thinking a lot recently, ostensibly because I’ve decided to get 20,000 steps a day. This has created a subsequent uptick in the amount of walking and, thus, thinking time I have. I walk everywhere now and no longer count myself as a bus, car, or bike Penguin. I’m waddling my feathery ass there if the destination is within a three mile radius.
I’ve had this niggling feeling I’m wasting precious time by doing this.
Why take a 45-minute walk when a five-minute car journey would achieve the same geographical displacement? After all, if I drove where I’m going and returned in the car, I could be back in front of my computer much quicker, and I’d have more time for writing! Hooray!
Sure, I’d be less fit, but also have more time.
The underlying questions this presented about my psychology were more complicated — I watch my psychology as if my life depends on it because, in many cases, it actually does.
When did I decide that walking was ‘wasting time’?
Where did that thought come from? Who put it there? And is it true?
