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Rain Walk- mhw #1

I have decided to document a series where I chronicle the walks I take for my mental health. Let us begin for this past Saturday when it was raining.

View from near by neighborhood. Blurred for cool effects and to make the pretty lights stand out.

Who doesn’t love a good walk in the rain? This was purely spur of the moment but something in me was just telling me that I NEEDED to be out in that rain walking around. Especially since it was starting to slow down.

It’s been rough ngl. Also the feeling of the rain sprinkling in your skin is 20/10. Another 20/10 is walking in the rain while ALSO listening to a liminal space playlist. I highly recommend it.Also the fog starting to drop in was another 20/10.

The rain in a way can feel like a liminal space because of how empty the roads can be. Liminal spaces are shown to be rather lonely which was sort of the case on my walk. Just occasional car would pass by. Now I’m thinking about liminal rooms with a rain landscapes. That sounds cool.

I started to notice on my walk there are only specific types of people that really take walks on the rain:

Big Dog Walkers

Smokers

The Mentally Ill Like Me

The Occasional Avid Elderly Walker

Of course they all make perfect sense for different reasons, but if there’s anyone I’d prefer the pass it’s the smoker as they always have a unique sense of style. The smoker I passed had a striped shirt and green hair. Kinda like that one Danganronpa character whose name I can’t remember.

And another great thing about walks in the rain is you’ll find little friends on the sidewalk as pictured below:

Pictured are Mx. Snail and the Earthworm. Couldn’t find the earthworm on my second loop around so I hope they’re okay. The Snail went to hide in their shell and I respect that. Some people are just camera shy and you can’t change that.

Well, that’s all I have left to say on the matter. I’ll probably take another walk tomorrow, been wanting to explore this canyon.

Allow me to provide a song recc from my playlist. Lemme know if you have any you’d like to give me for my playlist!

a plan of my ocs' neighborhood I did

I wish it was more aesthetic or artistic but idk how to do this,,

Found a doggo in the neighborhood

What's new pussycat? 🐈

My photography 📸

I don't know if this is just my neighborhood or everyone does this but around my area we have a ton of stray cats. So we all look out for them. We have them named, pet them if they come near us, and those who have the money feed them. If one gets hurt we take it to the vet and after they get better let them back out. We've tried spaying and neutering most of them. They're basically just all of our outdoor cats. Is this just me?

Organization

I’ve been trying to take my dog out in walks more often lately

He gets very rowdy since he doesn’t typically go on walks

And I thought walks after dinner would be something that would be good for both of us

We don’t go anywhere special

We just walk around in my suburban neighborhood.

I went to another section of the neighborhood for a change.

Right across the busy street.

And oddly enough

The scenery didn’t change

But my mind finally came to the realization of how odd the layout of my neighborhood was

Two trees in every front yard

A flower bed on the corner of it too

There’s no other greenery other than grass though

The roads go straight, right hand curve, straight, right hand curve

Border by light poles and power lines

You might see people outside, but this is rare.

They’re only outside come the holidays

Popping fireworks until one in the morning

I came to a section that had two baby trees alongside the sidewalk, which was also just as rare as seeing people outside.

Its soil was structured into a square on the ground.

There are so many basic shapes in this neighborhood.

What’s it all for?

I’m told to go outside but what it outside is nothing but boring attempts at housing.

It’s all

So

boring

No parks

No pools

No community

We’re not even allowed in the ditch anymore.

Is this what the future of housing is?

Humans try so hard to control nature

And to control organization

And make things clean

Because nature is just messy and chaotic and gross.

So we’ll just put all the trees in one block of land then put a road then put another block of trees in another acre of land and call ourselves friendly to the environment.

Humans have such parallels to our environment.

We’re messy

We’re chaotic

We’re gross.

And we’re so beautiful.

We’re also just an unpredictable as nature is

But we’re also fascinating because of our unpredictability

We do things that we ourselves do not even understand

We live, die, sleep, dream, get sick, fall in love, hate, fail, succeed,

All of these things are down to its core chaotic, unpredictable, unhinged, and messy.

I guess we inherited that from nature

So

Stop trying to pretend that we are meant to live on squares and rectangles

Because our world is so much more complicated than that.

And instead of fearing that very fact,

Try embracing it.

Ces for Neighborhood.