The Oldest Footprints Are a Little… Personal

OLD human foot prints

In White Sands National Park, scientists have been strengthening the case that human footprints there, date to roughly 23,000 years ago—far earlier than many people were taught about humans in North America. (Science)

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ancient-footprints-affirm-people-lived-in-the-americas-more-than-20-000-years-ago/

Let that sink in: someone walked across wet ground, and their steps got saved… for 23,000 years.

Meanwhile, I can’t find my phone when it’s in my hand.

The emotional translation

We all leave footprints too—just not in gypsum.

We leave them as patterns:

• how fast we defend

• how quickly we shut down

• how our mind time-travels to worst-case scenarios

Pain bodies don’t “appear out of nowhere.” They’re old trackways.

Tiny practice: “Trackway Check”

When you get triggered, ask:

• What did I just assume?

• What did my body just prepare for?

• What’s one new step I can take—today—so I don’t repeat the track?

Even one new step matters. That’s how a new path begins.