My name is Will DeFrees and this is a Sunday Scaries Podcast. You are here for the Sunday Blues.

It was Thanksgiving day. I was visiting my parents and I had the unwanted gift of too much free time on my hands.

Not really knowing what to do with myself during the downtime, other than sitting on my phone,

I knew doing just that would be detrimental to my much needed time off.

But at this time, I found myself at a crossroads professionally.

Was I going to stay at my job or was I going to leave as I entered the new year?

If you're familiar with the Midwest in the middle of winter, well it gets dark fairly early,

which means you only have a limited time to take a walk with daylight.

So at 4.30pm on Thanksgiving, when it was already getting dark outside,

I took my scrambled brain and I decided to take a snowy walk down the winding street that my parents live on.

Not being a big walker myself, I have to admit my ambitions were pretty low.

I wasn't tracking my steps, I wasn't maintaining a brisk pace and I certainly did not have a mile goal in mind.

So I walked and I walked and I walked.

I don't know how far I walked that day, but I know it wasn't a record or anything.

But when I returned home, it was completely dark outside and the rest of my family, my cousins, my aunts, my uncle,

they were all sitting there as I walked in.

And after that 90 minutes of cathartic alone time, I felt noticeably different.

And I also had a completely different mindset on whether or not I'd stay at my job at that current point in my life.

And spoiler, I ended up quitting the first day back after the new year.

Had I sat scrolling my phone in my childhood bed rather than walk a few miles that day,

the entire trajectory of my life could have changed.

It sounds very dramatic, I know, but it's something that I actually kind of do believe.

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