Being Still

Today I have stopped; I'm taking a day to be still. The past few days have been full and busy. Busy in the new Hong Kong lifestyle kind of way at least. Busy socialising, exploring and jostling with the locals on the streets. It's surprisingly exhausting, just being out with new people and more to the point, being out "there"... in the city. Of course I am not a city girl so this probably has a lot to do with it, and neither am I 21 any more, but I believe there is more to it than that. On the streets of Hong Kong, the air is polluted, the streets are busy, people cannot walk in a straight line...or faster than snail pace (sorry, my particular pet peeve at the moment) and it's humid. It takes it out of me in a whole new way. I marvel at how tired I can get from having a day "out". It's as though all of those things sap my energy. I feel less exhausted after I've been hiking. So today I am recouping my energy, catching up on things "inside", in more ways than one, so that I can venture out again tomorrow.