Every since college, I began to enjoy walking, especially when I am not in a hurry. I love to look at the people around when I walk. There's a particular scene that always catch my sight; old couples taking a walk. Yes, I know it was just a simple scene yet it has left a strong impression in my mind. "How I wish I would be like these old folks taking a walk together with my husband forty or fifty years later."Recently my Travel Companion and I visited my friend and his wife, Mr. & Mrs. Nice. We took a long walk around their neighborhood. There is a small forest closeby that connects to a lake. A pretty awesome scenery. Mrs. Nice and I were leading, leaving the guys behind. We had a little girls' talk. Mrs. Nice is now working part-time and spending most of her time staying at home taking care of their 10-month old. She told me how she enjoyed taking an evening walk after dinner each day together with her family. "Although life here is very simple and we do not have that many friends in this country, I am content with what we are having now." "Just taking a walk with Mr. Nice and the baby everyday is the most blissful time we have within a day. I hope we can get to do this no matter where we reside in future."
I told her I knew exactly what she meant. Many of us are always going after our dreams, ambitions and we are so busy chasing our goals or catching up with our daily lives. We don't get the time to just wind down and relax. Not to mention we do not even share some quality time with our loved ones. It really does not have to be fancy; just take a simple walk, sit at a park and talk to each other or grab a book to read, or perhaps just sit down at a park doing nothing but enjoying the time together. Most importantly, if you are healthy enough to move around at that old age, and at the same time you are enjoying the company of your partner doing things together, isn't that a great bless?
"I like to take walks together with you. We have to do it more." I keep telling my Travel Companion.
"But haven't we walked enough during our trips?"
"That's different. I don't mean those walks. But just a walk around the neighborhood or sitting at the park enjoying some relaxing moment, like what we did at the park in DC once."
I don't know whether he really understood me. But I'm sure he would be happy to keep me companied if I suggest taking a walk again. It is really not about taking a walk, but more of the great feeling of walking together with him. Just imagine an old wrinkly lady walking together with an old man holding a stick. That'd be such a lovely scene. Don't you think so?
♥ every page of my imagination
