Walking

       I felt like Henry David Thoreau the other day. My friend was very upset about her situation with her family. Actually I was a little upset too. We were sitting in her car crying about just everything. And then I asked "what do you want to do." She didn't know what to do either. So I suggested we go on a walk.
       Just  long walk, with no destination. We talked and talked, our conversation following the aimlessness of our journey. I felt like Thoreau as we walked and talked aimlessly. He writes about walking aimlessly through nature. He basically says just walk, just go. Which brings a whole new meaning to everything. My walk was a literal reflection of his advice. The talk was a more figurative reflection. Our lives should reflect this advice as well. Sometimes people go through life waiting for a journey or opportunity or job or mission or command or passion or anything to happen before they start living. But we should just start walking, start living, start our journey and we will eventually find something. We should just go, and do.
       This kind of reminds me of Dr. Seuss actually. It sounds childish, but people should go back and read Dr. Seuss, his poems have so much more meaning now that we are adults. In Dr. Seuss' "Oh! The places you'll go!" he writes about the 'waiting place' (for people just waiting):
                           "Waiting for a train to go or a bus to come, or the plane to go or the phone to ring or the snow to snow or waiting around for a Yes or No or waiting for their hair to grow. Everyone is just waiting. Waiting for a fish to bite or waiting around for Friday night or waiting, perhaps, for their Uncle Jake or a pot to boil, or a Better Break or a string of pearls, or a pear of pants or Another Chance. Everyone is just waiting" 
      Dr. Seuss and Thoreau are right. We need to stop waiting and walk. Just find a journey, no matter how aimless that journey may be. Just go. Thoreau also says that there is a right way to walk and we often choose the wrong one. But I think the wrong path is simply picking the path that everyone else takes, which is often the life of no journey at all. I believe we need to stop waiting or blending in or being scared. We need to walk. We need to live.