I came across few posts that fuel general feeling, especially after the COVID years of 2019 – 2020 that time seems to move faster, people seem to have lost memory of what happened in past four or five years. I am one of those included, my mind still seems to be stuck in 2020, the coming off COVID years as the restrictions loosened up on movements around the city, you could travel and so forth.

Few suggestions are eyebrow raising, the earth is moving faster (which is actually true), which is causing this phenomenon. Or, the world has passed on to a different paradigm, some kinda black hole, so we are actually living in a different time zone, like time travel five years forward. Some suggest the world actually ended in 2012! We are just living a virtual reality.

I think I have a feeling its all down to one thing, explosion of social media. Those flying, unconscious, drifting hours spent looking down on your phone or computer screen scrolling through Facebook posts, TikTok or YouTube videos and all other so called ‘social networks’ that are actually taking us away from the fundamentals of human society. We actually do go into some kinda ‘black hole’, our mind that is, when we are in that transfixed state. Is this the future? If so, then we are indeed creating a parallel universe, a virtual reality, from where we come down when we are too tired to continue, to the real ‘real’ world, and don’t seem to fit in.

There’s something profound about solitude. Not loneliness, mind you, but solitude—the kind where you are alone with your thoughts, your dreams, and your soul.

It’s in those quiet moments that I’ve done my best thinking. It’s in the silence of the forest that I’ve come to understand who I really am.

As you tread along the natural path made by nothing but human steps, leaves brushing past your face, you can feel your legs taking the lead, leaving the worrying brain behind, your mind starts to relax, your body slowly merging with the surrounding bush, nature will get to what she does best for you, heal you.

So I need to renew my National Parks parking permit and get back to bush walking, hiking, sometimes with family, sometimes just myself, in solitude, healing, breathing real fresh air, wandering – with intention to feel alive and being part of what we are made of.

First day of Winter in Sydney started with a rainy day, not too hard but continuous full day of wet weather. Forecast for this Winter season is a warm, dry one, lets see if the weather folks get it right as they got the summer wrong.