Today (I wrote this text on the 21st of September, 2025), the ‘voice of reason’, a metaphor for my inner wisdom and self-awareness, spoke to me.
What did the voice of reason tell me? It told me not to ruck today. After all, I’ve been rucking for the last five days in a row. For most of these photo-walks (please remember, my Dear Friend, that while walking with a heavy rucksack, I am also doing street photography), I was walking with a backpack that weighed ~30 kg (66 lbs.), because I was returning from my office job to my home. Yesterday, I was rucking with a rucksack that weighed 37.5 kg (83 lbs). Today, when I woke up on Sunday morning, and when I started to read Taschen books, I told myself I would go to do street photography without any rucksack and barbell plates. I just felt my organism had to recover and rest.
Recognizing my body’s signals helps me stay balanced and supports my self-awareness in health choices.
I have written many times that we should listen to our bodies. We should listen to what our body wants to say to us. I remember I was writing about listening to our bodies in a topic related to intermittent fasting or exposing one’s body to cold. Today, I listened to my body. I felt my body did not want to have a heavy rucksack. I think I will do the same tomorrow; I will simply go out to do street photography, but again, without a heavy rucksack. After five days of rucking, my voice of reason tells me I need to take a break.
It’s a wisdom to listen to our bodies, to understand what they’re telling us. I plan to be rucking in two days. Then, due to my professional work, I will again have a three-day break. Then, another weekend would appear when I predict I will feel hunger for rucking. Today, when I woke up, I simply did not feel this hunger. Sometimes we should simply let it go.
