Today (I wrote this text on the 20th of January, 2026), I will write some thoughts about winter.
Winter, like everything else, is neither good nor bad. I believe I have found the main reason for my injury. It is not a heavy rucksack, even though it also contributed to what had happened. The main reason was freezing Winter: its ice, to be more precise. After all, I’ve got the injury after slipping on the ice. I have written many times about the healing properties of the cold. After all, I’ve been walking in summer clothes in freezing temperatures for four years. Still, five days ago, I got to know the dark side of cold winter. In theory, I knew I could hurt myself due to slipping on ice, especially when I had a heavy rucksack on my back and shoulders and sneakers on my feet.
Still, I thought that it was only a theory.
I could not imagine I would slip on the ice, et voila, immobility became a part of me for a few weeks. That’s a little bit crazy for me. Still, I must simply accept it. I wrote many times in the past that I do not know what the future holds. During the last days, not for the first time in my life, life surprised me. I have no doubt that many surprises are still ahead of me in the future. Will they be good or bad surprises? I do not know it.
After all, who told what’s good or bad?
Sometimes seemingly “good” happenings can become “bad” ones. Or, a failure or loss, which would be considered as a negative experience, can appear, after a short or even long period, as a positive occurrence. I was supposed to write in this text about Winter. Perhaps I will write something more about it in the future.
