As I walked home this morning through the dusting of icing sugar snow I was struck by all the foot prints...you can tell a lot from them...how people walk..fast, slow with sliding feet, dragging along. Even where they are going. Someone pushing a pram or walking a dog...even birds' foot prints, now they do look amusing and very random hopping along looking like someone actually stencilled them there. It made me wonder what my own foot prints looked like...so I looked behind and I was amazed to see a flowery print mark from my boots. I had literally no idea that's what I left...and I've had these boots for about 4 years! You see the thing is you keep on going forwards and are so busy with all your thoughts that very rarely do you seem to have time to stop and look what you're leaving behind for the world to see. And that thought stayed with me all the way home. Sometimes we become so wrapped up in looking at the foot prints of others wondering where they are going and what they are doing, that we neglect our own progress in this world. I would hate to get to the end of the journey and look back and realise I hadn't left any foot prints.
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