Finished work tonight at 10pm and then went for a 10km walk – I was going to just do an 8km walk but I got to the 6km mark and decided I may as well go the ‘whole hog’. I arrived back home feeling a bit sore but feeling good as though I had just accomplished something. I’ve never been someone into exercise or as the saying goes “built for comfort not for speed” but getting back into doing some regular exercise feels really rewarding. After coming back from a long walk you feel tired but you also feel like you’ve achieved something, kind of like when you climb a mountain and then get to the top then see how far you’ve come. At the moment the big drive is to get below 100kg by the end of this year and then once I get to my desired weight I’ll probably reduce my exercise to 4-5 times a week with a few rest days.
When participating stops being enjoyable and instead starts becoming a burden, when you increasingly find that you become more and more angry but nothing productive comes from engaging with people who clearly are saying and doing things to get a rise out of you. When you’ve had that experience that is the moment you need to unplug, disconnect from the internet, to go out and ‘touch grass’ and start setting boundaries to what you do online. For me it meant walking away from Twitter (before it was bought out by Elon Musk), laying clear boundaries simply to disengage from unproductive discussions or as a family member said, “say your piece, then walk away, don’t engage any further in the discussion”.
Part of the unplugging process also involves finding replacements to being always online – set a clear limits that you not only hold yourself to but also those who you interact with, for example, not replying to text messages or answering phone calls after a certain time unless it is an emergency. I also go for a walk after work each night as a way of unwinding and empty my head of what took place that day so that when I come home I go to bed with a clear head and then start a new day the next day with a fresh mind without the baggage being carried over from the previous day(s).
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