I met up with Jenny, who I met on the PCT/JMT over two months ago, for a nice little day hike this morning. We hiked around Tennessee Valley for a few hours, and despite being pretty gray and overcast, there was surprisingly good horizontal visibility.
Jenny asked me if I thought the recovery time, the time it takes to get back into the swing of things after your return from vacation, increases with the length of the vacation itself. It took me a while to get back to "normal" after my trips this summer, which was surprising and a little disconcerting.As I walked along the trail, it occurred to me that if it takes one a while to get back to normal (more than the usual few days of catching up and errands), it's a good idea to figure why that is. We shouldn't have to become re-acclimated to our normal life. Instead, we should be living a life that is already naturally comfortable.
I get all excited when I make one of these simple, yet very important, realizations.
Here's an almost entirely unrelated quote that makes me happy:
"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eyes." -Antoine De Saint Exupery
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