The walking cure: when an injury forced me to slow down, I learned that we can only amble our way to wisdom | Justine Toh

A tear in my right calf muscle has exposed me as a walking cliche of middle-class, middle-aged life... Wisdom might instead back the slower pace that walking, as opposed to running, embodies especially if we want to remain human in a world that can feel anything but.

To deliberately slow down feels like failure. But anything that grows your soul takes time... no shortcuts to hard-won insight; you can only amble your way to wisdom. Sometimes literally.

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