Autumn's Thoughts

I have to say that for me walking on these solitary country roads in Autumn is a peculiar experience. Maybe it depends on the intese colors of the landscape surrounding me, the profound scents of the fields, silence, those small breaths of fresh wind: well anything stimulates meditation.



While walking in these days, my thoughts fly: even if my sight is focused on green fields, red trees or some bird or other animal, my mind is somewhere else. Memories, thoughts, reflections, considerations, imagines of a more or less far past time: anything seems frantically boiling in my mind.

I have to admit that if I have some confused ideas, if some problem makes me leaving my home sad or unquiet, even after a short walk what is confused turns clear, what is complex turns easy. Finally I find the necessary quietness and concentration to solve big and small problems.

While walking, what seemed to me a very difficult problem or a deep worry become small things which, with a little bit of serenity, can be solved.

Well, walking, in particular during the Fall, maybe has also a therapeutic function. Several times it helps me in understanding with what kind of banalities, silly things and futile questions I waste a larger part of my time...