Sunday Walk ♡

Last week, I was feeling a little bit down. I just handed in my master thesis (about ecocriticism) and wasn't really content with the result. This always happens to me and after each big project, I kind of fall into a black hole. While working on a paper, I will always be distracted and once I've delivered it, reality hits hard. Additionally, my parents were abroad, my boyfriend on a tour and my roommates headed to their hometown for the whole weekend. So I was feeling pretty lonely and decided to get out of the apartment for a bit and go for a long walk in the forest.


It's fantastic how much a bit of fresh air and a new scenery can do for your mental health. Henry David Thoreau is someone I really admire and "Walden" is one of my favourite works. I have thus added some pictures of my walk and annotated them with some of his quotes. (I know very sophisticated :) ) 

"pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence"

"I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude"

"a morning walk is a blessing for the whole day"

"not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves"

"Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain"

p.s. I'm aware that Thoreau probably wouldn't have been that supportive of selfies ;)