Today (I wrote this text on the 27th of January, 2026), I realized I was walking with dignity. Why?
It was because the pace of my walking during the last five days was very slow. Still, today, contrary to the last four days, I was not hobbling while strolling (I took over 10k steps and over 120 pictures). Why did I feel I was walking with dignity today? It was not only because I was not hobbling and walking very slowly. Also, I was walking very cautiously, and like most other people, in warm clothes. After all, it was +3 degrees Celsius (37.4 degrees Fahrenheit). I’ve already written a text that when I do not feel 100% healthy, I prefer not to expose my body to cold. Luckily, it means that since I’ve been taking cold showers (April 2021) and wearing summer clothes in frigid temperatures (Fall/Winter season 2021/2022), I was healthy all the time, because exposing my body to cold provided me much joy.
That’s why I was convinced that if I were wearing “normal” clothes, as 99% other people do during Winter, I would not feel like a freak.
I felt like a normal person, without one’s superpowers (of course, I also did not have a heavy rucksack on my back and shoulders), who walks slowly and enjoys everything that mundane reality could offer to him. Does it mean I was sad I could not show my superpowers? No. I simply accepted it, because I could not do anything about that. The truth is that I was mainly enjoying the possibility of walking with dignity and taking pictures of Warsaw in beautiful, winter scenery. Tomorrow, I will be working remotely. I won’t take a walk during the day. In this post, I want to stress my honest gratitude that I could regularly walk during the last five days.
