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Sports Outdoors
A kite surfer’ventures into the wind-driven water during a king tide
Sunday at Belfair State Park. Journal photo Johnson
FAB
Fighting offthe anxiety of life, one step at a time
aise you hand if you’ve dealt daily step count goal of 10,000 steps, days
before I narrowly missed. ' It helps short-circuit the moments
with some sort of anxiety in which equals about 4.5 miles of walk- Call it
a false start. of anxiety, stress and whatever other
the past nine or so months. ing. . ' Beginning April 23, I looked in
and emotions flow out of a world that has
For those with your hand Beginning in late 2018, as of Tuesday night,
I’ve achieved my seemingly gone mad. V,
up —— I’m going to assume I set a goal to hit that step 10,000—step
goal for just shy of seven Sometimes your feet hurt or your
that’s most of you —know count every day for ayear, months. back aches,
but that pain keeps up
that you’re not alone. and I came close. Alter 11 Just as it was the
first time, it can the distraction.
It’s been a long haul and, months, with the end in be a chore some days.
There is joy in committing to and
at least for me, as the days sight, I misseda day’s goal Some days you
just want to sit in achieving a long-term goal.
continue to get shorter, my by less than 500 steps. , your recliner in
front of the television I don’t know yet whether I’ll be
own bouts have become more Despite the miss, I fin- and'watch
football. ' successful in reaching a year, but I
common. ished out the year strong On a few occasions, that 10,000th do know
that the journey thus far as
Between the coronavirus , and hit the goal for the re- step has come as I
walked to the bed. helped fight off that fog of anxiety.
pandemic; civil unrest across By JUSTIN maining three weeks, and room to go
sleep. Feeling the buzz on my wrist as
the country and the most JOHNSON even though I told myself at . I choose to
push through those that counter clicks past 10,000 gives
contentious election of my ' ' the time it was OK, it still days
that lack motivation. me a daily victory.
v 41 years, it doesn’t feel like , kept bothering me. I keep going.
It’s not much, but some days even
there are many avenues to In April, I decided to do Why? the little things
count.
escape: , something about it. .It’s not glamorous and there isn’t
That’s why I keep going.
I turned back to my most reliable As the pandemic settled in, upend— a
trophy waiting at the end, but, as , ,
one - walking. ing all our lives, I turned again to they say, it’s about
the journey, not I, Justin Johnsonis the Editor of
I’ve written previously about that band of plastic on my wrist, giv- the
destination. the Shelton-Mason County Journal.
my struggles with depression ‘ ing me a vital lifeline to focus on. .
During those times when I’m walk- He can be reached by email at justin@
anxiety, and how I’ve used my Fitbit’s I started on April 1 and made it
21 ing, it gives me time to clear my head. masoncounty.com. ’