Walking With Awareness

Walk slowly in any safe space, the corridor at home, the colony park early in the morning, a quiet temple courtyard, or any peaceful park in the city you live in now. Move at half your usual pace. Place full attention on the alternating contact of the feet with the ground, lift, swing, place, lift, swing, place. The feet have done this since you were a child, but rarely with anyone watching. Today, watch. The mind that was racing through the day's worries finds itself walking too, one step at a time. There is nowhere to reach. Each step is the destination.