If you ask Alex Thompson what keeps pulling him back outside—away from screens, deadlines, and city noise—he doesn’t start with science or statistics. He talks about a feeling.

It’s the feeling of walking into a forest and realizing that, for once, nothing needs anything from you. No notifications, no tasks, no expectations. Just trees, wind, and the steady rhythm of your own footsteps. It’s subtle at first, but the longer you stay, the more it sinks in: this is what it’s supposed to feel like to simply exist.

“The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.”