Last time, while taking another photo walk, I realized that it provides me the joy of exploring.
I wrote it many times, but I have to write it once again. Walking and taking photos on Warsaw’s streets provides me unbelievable amusement thanks to creating new photographs. Moreover, thanks to walking, endorphins are buzzing in my blood, giving me even more happiness. Another factor that, undoubtedly, makes me happy is discovering my own city. I remember the so-called urbex (urban exploration) is dedicated mainly to inspecting old, ruined buildings. I must admit that quite unconsciously, I also became the one who explores such bizarre empty buildings.Â
Nevertheless, in this post, I want to stress that discovering ruined architecture is not the only aim of my strolling around strange places.
The truth is that I love to walk along, for example, railways. In this case, I can see many weird places. Homeless people sometimes live in these bizarre places. Is that mean that I explore such places when people are nearby? No. In general, while discovering such sites, they are empty. If I noticed that someone is nearby, I would not risk, and I would stop exploring. Still, the truth is that the joy of exploring appears practically every time I discover new, strange places in my city. I do not know how it is happening, but I sometimes find new small paths not far from my house.
Sometimes I imagine that I have been lost in a maze called Warsaw and that I have to somewhat unconsciously find a way out of the labyrinth. That is, I have to find a different route way back to my home. Moreover, I still do not know how it is possible that more than five years of regular photo-walking the same routes still did not bore me. I wrote this post on the 23rd of April, 2021, and I am happy that tomorrow, on Saturday, I can explore something new not far away from my house.
