A quiet town, and a slight shift in my feelings

For the first time in a while, I walked to the office.
Honestly, the scenery doesn't change no matter where I look.
It's a town with streets that have been here forever, and there's nothing particularly interesting about it.
But when I'm walking, I find myself thinking about all sorts of things.

Things I don't notice when I drive past,
like the silence between traffic lights or the fallen leaves piled up at the edge of the road.
Today, those ordinary things really caught my eye.

When I was living alone in Hiroshima, everything I saw felt fresh.
Every day was a little different, and even just walking around was stimulating.
But now, in this unchanging town,
perhaps this is the time for me to regain my own pace.

I'm tired, but
when I arrived at the office on foot, I felt a little proud of myself.
No one is going to praise me for it, but
the realization that "I walked properly again today"
made it a pretty good morning, just like that.