I was out walking again today along the beautiful South Downs Way, near Cocking; despite the slight overcast, the views were phenomenal.  It occurred to me that walkers, like the rest of us, are busy trying to ‘find our way’.  We talk about ‘losing our way’ too.  Then I looked down, and realised that I was already ‘on my way’,  and my feet were already on my path.  I was in the only place I could be to move forward from.

We spend so much time planning how to get some place else.  Maybe we need, instead, to ask why we are where we are? 

I was also wondering why I was walking, what was the point of spending all this effort to just get back to the same place?  I occurred to me that whilst I stayed the same, the view and what I could see kept changing.  In other words, it gives me a constantly changing vista or perspective.  One of the key things that enables us to change is seeing the same things differently, or seeing extra things that change our views.

“I’m working my way toward divinity.”   Bette Midler

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