Distance Is Just A Number

Throughout our lives we travel some pretty great distances. We don't cover the vast majority of the distance we travel in just one road trip. Most of the distance of inches, feet, and yes miles happens in the little places we go every day.

I travel around eight or nine miles every single day for my job. I know what you are thinking, I do that all the time in my car, so what's the big deal. Well I don't have a car. I borrow my roommates bike to get around the city, and honestly it doesn't even feel like I am going that far when I go out. I know I cover a large area, but I take it little by little, and it doesn't even feel like I have traveled very far.

A few people have helped me out by not letting me walk or bike distances, because to them the distance was too far to walk. When they ask me where I need to go, I usually tell them it's not that far, but then I get a look from them questioning my interpretation of distance.

I used to walk two miles pretty much every day to get home from school. After walking that distance day after day, I got used to it, and it didn't seem like it was even that far anymore. I would separate the distance into different blocks based on where I was on the route, so it just seemed like five or six small distances all in a row.

When you take things little by little, they become easier. Distances become a mere number, when you take them little by little.  When you try to take on the world all in one hit, it's impossible. It's too big to take it on all at once, but when you take it on in small pieces, you can take on the world, because it becomes smaller. Take the small person's perspective, and see the world for what it is, and take it on little by little.
#TakeOnTheWorld #DistanceIsJustANumber #ShortStories #LittleByLittle
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