Walking slow isn’t wasting time. It’s actually getting to see the route.

Speed narrows what you can take in. When you hurry, a walk becomes a gap between two places, and everything along it turns into scenery you technically passed. Slowing down does not add hours to your day, but it changes what those hours contain. The same street holds far more when you are not trying to get through it.

Give one walk this week five extra minutes on purpose. Take the longer way back from the bus stop. Find one thing you have passed a hundred times and never once actually looked at.