One of my favorite quotes by Mark Twain goes something like this.
“Even if we’re on the right track, we’ll get hit by a train if we don’t keep moving!”
Sometimes we really can’t figure out what to do or sometimes we don’t even know what we would like to do. How are we supposed to do something when we don’t even know what it is that we will enjoy? “Find a hobby,” says a therapist. Really?
And that’s where moving becomes fun. If we just keep moving in some way, we’re bound to bump into something. We may not like everything, and sometimes we may run for cover, but generally we stumble across something interesting. And moving doesn’t have to be formal. It can be as simple as speaking to the person behind us in line at the grocery store. It can be striking up conversations with those we see during the week, like the person in the bank. It can be going for a walk in a dog park and meeting dogs and their owners. Someone we meet may suddenly break into song, or tell us a funny story, or tell us about a caretakers group that we desperately need. Someone may be looking for a yoga buddy. Someone may make us laugh.
We might end up getting a dog. We might end up helping at the SPCA. We might end up at a Toastmasters meeting just to see what it’s like. We might learn about a good movie to rent on a Friday night. We may learn about some funny play going on in the neighborhood. We may just have a nicer hour in our day.
We can’t always foresee what movement will bring, but life seems to open up in unexpected ways. And we sure don’t want to get hit by a train.
