I've been having some issues in my life lately and it has been negatively affecting my mental health. I think most of us spend entirely too much time sitting in front of a computer, on our own, in our house, and this in my mind is the worst possible place to be when you are having some problems in your life. You go over the problem over and over in your head and nothing ever gets resolved and you just worry more and more and the stress gets to you massively. I have gotten to the point where I can't even do things like play video games because my head is somewhere else and I can't focus. Sleep has become elusive and even hanging out with friends is a bit difficult because my worries are always on my mind, constantly eating away at me.
Well, I have discovered something that everyone else might already know that has helped me a lot and even though I bag on Da Nang for not being a very good place to live, I have rediscovered the beach walk area and it has been wonderful for my thought process and for me working things through that are going on in my life.
Da Nang has it's shortcomings, that's for sure. I have plenty of gripes about it. But they do have a rather large beachfront where most of it has a nice and well-maintained walkway that stretches on for something crazy like 10 miles. Recently, when I was at my wits end and just losing my mind over my recent problems in my life I decided to just walk and walk and talk things through in my house, outside of the confines of the walls of the condo... and it was very effective.
I was just going to walk for a bit, maybe grab a coffee some kilometers from where I started, then go home again. I ended up going for nearly 15 km.
If you get here during the right times of day or choose the right part of the pathway, you have a decent chance of having the place to yourself and this is a great time to have a chat with the most important person in your life... you.
Nadi did not come with me and 15 km would be far too long of a walk for someone with 5 inch legs, but I think in the future we might make this a duo walk. I can still talk to me while making sure she doesn't poop on the sidewalk.
We all have problems in our lives and mine are some pretty big ones right now such as the declining health of my dog best friend and the fact that things are looking a lot less certain as far as my time in this country into the future are concerned. These are things that require a great deal of thought and staring at the walls or one of my many LED screens that are slowly destroying my eyesight, are not really doing the trick.
So if you are having some issues, there might be some "free therapy" nearby you in the form of a walk as well. I hope that you will find as much benefit in it as I have.