Sunday, July 20, 2008

Step by step

I went walking with my family in the mountains today. On one of the uphills my daughter was getting a little tired. I tried to teach her one of the things I do when I'm walking uphill and start to feel tired. I make my steps shorter and get into a rhythm. That way I forget about the tiredness and my walking becomes a lot easier.
What she immediately tried to do was copy my steps, but her legs are a lot shorter. The thing is, I can teach her how to find a rhythm, I can teach her that this will make it easier, but she is the one who needed to find a rhythm that worked for her. My rhythm just wouldn't do.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

It's a kinda magic hey... we all stride differently... in the same direction....