The view can be a reason to move without becoming a reward you must earn.

GRATITUDE

WHAT THIS MEANS

Beautiful things get put behind a fee without anybody deciding to charge one. The hilltop becomes payment for a hard climb, the ocean becomes what you get for the diet, and the pleasure now depends on having performed well enough to deserve it. That arrangement quietly removes the simplest reason for going, which is that you wanted to see it.

Go somewhere lovely this week at whatever pace your body offers, and stop where you like along the way. Let the reason be that the view is there, not that you have settled an account with yourself.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

Where would you walk simply because the walk is pleasant?

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