{"id":9320,"date":"2024-03-28T01:21:31","date_gmt":"2024-03-28T01:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fieldstonnews.com\/home\/?p=9320"},"modified":"2024-03-28T01:21:32","modified_gmt":"2024-03-28T01:21:32","slug":"my-friend-told-me-to-take-a-walk-and-it-changed-my-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fieldstonnews.com\/home\/2024\/03\/my-friend-told-me-to-take-a-walk-and-it-changed-my-life\/","title":{"rendered":"My Friend Told Me To “Take A Walk,” and It Changed My Life"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

During a lazy Spring Break day, my good friend texted me: \u201cGo take a walk and listen to this podcast.\u201d For many people, I would respond, \u201cLOL no.\u201d After all, how can anyone take that text seriously? However, this isn\u2019t just any old friend; she avidly chases all things mindful: from her Pinterest dream boards to her Sunday Sunset Walks. I was sitting on my couch, ready to waste an hour on my phone, and I thought \u2013 why not? I put on a pair of fresh sneakers, grabbed my AirPods and walked to Riverside Park. After I listened to the podcast, \u201cWhy We Should Be Grateful To Be Alive<\/a>,\u201d by Lexi Hidalgo, I started to look at the world differently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At a particularly emotional point of the podcast, where Hildago discussed personal loss, she insisted, \u201cLive your life for the ones that can\u2019t.\u201d She intentionally paused afterward, letting the message travel through the airwaves into my heart. I also took a moment to pause. I looked at the glorious view of the George Washington Bridge, I felt the wind in the air, blowing my hair back and I took notice of the people around me. When do we ever just \u2013 pause?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLive your life for the ones that can\u2019t.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The rest of the podcast, which I highly recommend, continued in the same form. Hidalgo addressed all facets and times in our lives: emotional, physical, past, present and future. Hidalgo professed, looking to the future, \u201cThink of all the people you haven\u2019t met yet.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the last words of Hidalgo faded away, I let the silence simmer in my ears. I took everything in. I breathed. I noticed. I watched a little girl on her father\u2019s shoulders, a little boy swinging a baseball bat and two elderly people sitting on a bench, reading like they probably have for decades. I crouched down and inspected pieces of strawberry in the dirt. I imagined people coming together to share a box of berries, or maybe someone came alone, their only company a book and the red fruit. <\/p>\n\n\n

\n
\"\"
Source: Lily Saal<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

On my walk, nothing happened to me: fireworks didn\u2019t go off, I didn\u2019t win any awards and no one around me noticed anything. That was the point. People didn\u2019t notice that I saw the cherry trees in a brighter pink or that the clementine in my bag seemed a brighter orange.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

During a lazy Spring Break day, my good friend texted me: \u201cGo take a walk and listen to this podcast.\u201d For many people, I would respond, \u201cLOL no.\u201d After all, how can anyone take that text seriously? However, this isn\u2019t just any old friend; she avidly chases all things mindful: from her Pinterest dream boards to her Sunday Sunset Walks. I was sitting on my couch, ready to waste an hour on my phone, and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":301,"featured_media":9321,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[347,437,318,321],"tags":[],"coauthors":[429],"class_list":["post-9320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-health","category-news","category-opinion"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/fieldstonnews.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screen-Shot-2024-03-21-at-5.43.19-PM-e1711057493932.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fieldstonnews.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fieldstonnews.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fieldstonnews.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fieldstonnews.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/301"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fieldstonnews.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9320"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fieldstonnews.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9322,"href":"https:\/\/fieldstonnews.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9320\/revisions\/9322"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fieldstonnews.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fieldstonnews.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fieldstonnews.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fieldstonnews.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9320"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fieldstonnews.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}