Walk …

Been to Holmforth today for a nice, long walk. Amazing that place… All that nature and green landscape around made me dread facing the grumpy old city again.

It was a big group of us going; 24 to be more exact. Sometimes I don’t even know when I got to meet so many people, since I stopped acting like a social being quite some time ago. Of course, I stayed in the back most of the time; or way in front. I preferred admiring the view to chatting about food, clothes and boys while walking through mud. I don’t even know why some women like talking about men so much, like they’re some aliens who act and think in the same way. They tend to generalize them most of the times ‘oh well that’s how men are’ or ‘men always do that’; I just try to avoid those kind of discussions, or probably join in just for amusement. But in the end, just like G. Soh says … ‘Men are from earth. Women are from earth. Deal with it.’

Anyhow, the scenery was amazing. For a moment there I thought I knew how paradise felt like. So much open space, with so few people around (well, except us). I finally understood what my father always says when he has this feeling: ‘you can feel God in here, can’t you?’ even though he claims he doesn’t believe in God; for him, it is just a metaphorically way of speaking.

I can honestly say all that green and the fresh air around will keep me going for a good while now and I would recommend anyone who still sees walks as a ‘going out’ thing to visit Holmforth. The whole walk took around three hours or more, which was a bit unusual for me, the girl who stays indoors most of the time, reading and doing little nothings. And I used to be such an outgoing person … Shame on me.