Weekly Contest 39 || The Diary Game| 02/08/2025 || "Me and my day with my little companion" ||

My morning

I love spending my day in nature, so I spent this day, and what I experienced was amazing. The day was perfect and sunny even if it was 6 degrees C.

This morning as I was looking out of my window, I realized how much damage we have done to the earth, even though this country has preserved nature so well. We have been living with nature for so long, and we are constantly destroying the very thing that has kept us alive. What are we doing?

Wow, the trees! What a feeling. I smelled fresh. A smell that I loved ever since my younger days when I used to roam around in the Himalayas during my vacations.

I dare not climb a tree, though, since I fell from trees during my childhood, and I feel the trees in the Himalayas were so dangerous; if anyone fell from any of those pine trees, he would never be found again.

So today in the morning I had my favorite breakfast and took my bike, and my dear Ryan was with me.

I biked towards the library as I wanted to borrow a book and return the one I borrowed last week. I wish I had more time to read, but most times even the one I borrow, I don't read it fully.

I was sitting, then I got second thoughts. The sun once again disappeared. Eventually I just jumped deep in my thoughts. The feeling was just overwhelming. I remembered my personal challenges, appearance, money, and other work that I do during the day.

I could feel how my thoughts were running inside my mind. How my brain worked hard to stay active while I was standing there under the trees.

Later during the noon,

Oh, I could see Rayan standing near a tree with different colored leaves. It brought more life to the scenario as the sun hit hard on them. We biked from that place down to the shopping center as I wanted to buy groceries for the week, but it had to be limited since we were on a bike.

I could see leaves still falling and hitting the ground. I don't know why a few of them fell faster than others.

All of a sudden I felt a new sensation in my mind, but then nature truly gives something that you don't get within four walls of your house. I always feel nature is a moving force that makes you feel alive. Nature is as real as it motivates you to do better. It does so to me, at least.

I came out of my thoughts and biked my way towards library. I was like. “Was that feeling really true? Oh yes, that feeling was real, as real as it gets, especially when I am with this kid. Once I reached deeper in the park, the sun was shining again, and it made the whole scenario even more real.

I thought that I had spent a whole month with new members, so I had to recharge my energy because the next month is also going to be like this. Well my first duty is on the 4th, so I can spend some time, and what better way than spending time in nature.

I felt really energized when I returned home. Then suddenly the idea came to my mind. Oh well I can write a diary based on my day's trip.

When I reached the place, I suddenly got an idea to sit in this park for some time and watch what Mother Nature has provided to us human beings. I parked my bike aside and sat on a bench. Today, I decided that I needed to get my energy level back. So what better way to do that than spending time in nature?

Whenever I arrive at this location, I just get this feeling that I want to sit here for a longer time.

I don't know what struck me, but while sitting idle, I thought that I should write something. But what should I write? I am not a good diary writer who can pick out pearls of words from the ocean of thoughts and string them neatly especially about his day and what he did during his outing.

I clicked a few pictures, but new ideas kept coming to my mind, and I thought that this day's activities could have made this a whole day project. Maybe I got a draft of a blog that I could convert into a diary.

The house I live in has a lot of scenery and things to do that take me away from the present moment. Like even when I'm working online or eating, it's just me and my phone or laptop.

As I sat there listening to how the sounds of nature were constantly changing, I started thinking about how humans are actually actively destroying it all. How wonderful is that and what we have made of ourselves!

I couldn't bring myself to dwell on this feeling, and I had to stop. I walked towards the library with big steps as if I was running away from reality. Maybe this is what we all do most of the time? Maybe that is why we energize ourselves with phones and the internet.

On my way to the library, I saw this man painting the wall they call it graffiti.

I was still in college when I first went out on my own and saw the world through my own perspective. The important thing was, it was something I had heard over and over again from others but never experienced. Sometimes you would feel it, but usually it comes when you go through stress in your life.

I am in business, or should I say the job, which makes me stressed at times, and then if I face a problem or difficulty, I find it best in the lap of Mother Nature.

But here in this park this noon it was just me, the sounds of nature and my little companion. Neither of us cares much about eating. We had brought a light snacks with us that we ate and drank water.

My mind was always meant to spend time outside as a cure-all for any and every problem I faced in life it was simply walk outside, and I discovered spending time outside helped me relieve stress.

People who believe in Nature or spend some time outside to them, Nature will give something unique.

I am just a common man like others who runs his family by doing a job. Whose present is entangled in trying to realize countless dreams of the future. Or maybe there are no special dreams left now that I am always immersed in the worry of what will happen tomorrow.

Finally, at about 4, I entered the grocery shop to buy the necessary grocery items as we were on bike so we could carry limited items. My emphasis was on vegetables and fruits, although we needed a can of milk, but I decided to order them online. We bought a couple of avocados, apples and cucumbers for AU$ 17.60 and came back home.

Actually, we have a lot of problems in the world so we don’t go out and spend time with Nature but if we do this will give you a new feeling from just walking, biking or jogging, age no bar. I was always aware with the contact with Mother Nature right from a very young age.

We came back home at 5 pm. When I came back home, I had a bowl of light snack made of puffed rice and peanuts, which is called Bhelpuri in our country. This Bhelpuri originally came from the streets of the Gujarat State of India or Mumbai in Maharashtra but is now popular all over India.

Time for supper

I think Bhelpuri is actually a dish, which is a spicy-salty dish made of puffed rice, tomatoes, potatoes, and various sauces, and is my favorite for its taste and no harmful ingredients. Today there was no green coriander in my kitchen otherwise, its taste would increase even more.

That was my day guys

02/08/2025
6.45 PM
Canberra

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