This... landscape

April 17, 2024.

I could start at the end; say, for example, that I am still waiting for a fellow cyclist who told me that today we would go to Monte Barreto: a forest.

But I would like to show this idyllic landscape...

... and my smile when my neighbour intercepted me coming from Taichi and gave me Milka.

I asked her to take this picture of me because this Milka thing has a history in my Blog.

Today I feel very lucky. So, the landscape was not idyllic. Nothing is idyllic for me at this moment. Milka is here again against all odds. And these days I feel rewarded, because it's not that I have stopped being chaotic, I have moved a little bit forward in my goals and that's enough.

I have realised that I don't have to push myself or suffer because I don't achieve perfection.

As long as you recognise your progress and are happy with it, the path is already promising.

Ok. I'm not going to the forest today. It's 17:21 and this guy just told me that his day got tough. I'm just saying, nothing is perfect. However, I haven't been idle waiting. I got ahead on work. Write this post and think that landscapes (all of them) always have something good to show. It is only up to us to realise this.

On the other hand I have to celebrate that I have not smoked for a long time now. I would go to look for the day I said it here on Hive, but ... I feel lazy/ :D

It's just a fact. Not the fact that I'm lazy 🙄😂... but that I quit smoking.

I don't feel like smoking, I'm enthusiastic about my bike training, the Taichi practice officially began today, and I'm committed to filling every moment of my life with significance for myself and those around me.

Landscapes - they will be there. Can you see what's in this?

This is the view I see just a short time before arriving home. And what you see in the background is rubbish.

We are big producers of rubbish and the sad thing is that sometimes it is not treated properly.

I don't want to digress, but sometimes you have to deal with rubbish situations as well. Again, you have the power to leave it behind after processing that rubbish that we often just want to hide under the furniture so it doesn't show up. Yet we know it's there, so that's why that magic trick is not the solution.

We are not perfect, but we are perfectible. And I know, I said it, we should not pursue perfection (it is often utopian) but improving is an achievement. Let's improve without hurting ourselves. One step at a time.

The mountain of rubbish is burnt from time to time. It is terrible to see how people risk being in it, exposing themselves to danger in many ways.

Even we in this neighbourhood feel the danger of breathing these fumes.

We have all fallen victim to our blindness at some point, finding ourselves in messy situations or concealing our mess under furniture to maintain the illusion of a clean space.

It is important to be brave and say enough, and be consistent in doing good to others. It's like giving love, without expecting anything in return.

There have been a lot of distractions to get here. It's 19:00. I wanted to share some thoughts with you, things that have been circulating in my mind for a long time, and I have come to realize that in order to appreciate the beauty of life, one must also create with beauty.

Is it possible to leave this behind?

Riding a bike and practicing Taichi seem like viable options to do it.

Btw, I switched to STRAVA even though I've been exporting my workouts to Relive.

If you want to follow me on STRAVA, here is my link.

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