Opportunity like a good neighboring park has always there. But so many times we hardly use it by making time to go out for a good walk! Even inside or near offices there is a lot of walking space – so many times I’ve been negligient.

Off late we’ve managed to be quite regular. This morning after some rain it looked so heavenly that couldn’t help slowing down to take a video… so that any reader here can e-join us (but hopefully will be a start for an actual walk sooner or later! 😉 )

The sun occasionally peeping out of the clouds add a magic touch…
(more…)

More tyred than this guy? 😉

Kichu Krishnan had asked this question – when you reach home in the evening, how tired are you? And he talked about a typical scene that I could at that time easily relate to.

I used to be a workaholic, and when I went home I was so tired I'd just ring the doorbell, and someone from my family opens the door, and I just walk – er kind of drag myself in past them as if they didn't exist… maybe a few cursory exchange of words… go into my room or some place where I can just dump my belongings… then just plop in front of the TV or eat something… this was a typical evening.

Kichu went on to ask another question – what have you really done all day to be so tired?

[Its certainly much easier to watch television, to follow a cricket match score, and to urge someone to do something better that we ourselves are not doing. I think it takes courage to be able to answer ordinary simple questions like that to oneself which were being fired like missiles at the audience. Since you're reading this site compared to all the other much more interesting material on the net, you're quite likely to be a courageous person 😉 ]

So I was sitting there listening to these talk and asking myself these questions The initial reaction of course was – WHAT KIND OF A STUPID QUESTION IS THAT?? OBVIOUSLY I'VE BEEN WORKING HARD THE WHOLE DAY AND SO I'M EXHAUSTED…!

But considering my actual physical activity the entire day and contemplating silently about the question further made me doubt my immediate answer, and opened my mind up a bit…

Kichu went on to say – have you watched children – do they ever get tired? They keep playing the entire day… where do they get all that energy from?

And it was indeed true.

We too were children earlier, what happened to us, what difference is there between then and now? Kichu essentially spoke about how that same INFINITE ENERGY is available to us all the time, just that we are not in touch with it. Of course I don't remember the details – but I realised beyond any doubt the truth of his words.

And over the years, whenever I got tired or exhausted either from work or on a walk or a trek… I found that just recalling that idea snaps me out of the delusion "I am tired" and really invigorates me! Consequently I found that one's limits are far greater than what one may perceive! Whenever I came home from outside, I automatically happened to remember this and was usually cheerful and fresh. Even if I was really tired, not very often did the tiredness affect my mood.

This is not about some kind of positive thinking where I try to convince myself that I am not tired even when I am not 🙄 Its more about the real rather than just perceived fact – the fact may well be that I am really tired and my body does need rest (and then one can accept it, either try to get some rest if possible, or try to push my limits depending on the situation). The idea is about not falling into the trap of self-pity 🙂 That even with extensive activity, its possible to stay relaxed internally.

Years later as I happened to by some fluke of fortune get in touch with the idea of sitting in silence – looking not outside but inside, Kichu's simple idea yet most easily forgotten idea made so much more sense 😎

This is a letter to my colleagues, and I thought I’d share it here as well…

Dear all,

Can you guess where this photo was taken…

Around 18:20 just a few minutes’ walk from
our office! 🙂

This facility has just happened to be provided to us by coincidence so if you like you could use the opportunity in the evenings to take a brisk walk on the neat walking path around the lake, and enjoy a sunset on this bench before you go home/continue to work.

quotegarden.com – here are some of them…

Now shall I walk

~W.H. Davies

 
Everywhere is walking distance
if you have the time.  ~Steven
Wright

I have two doctors,
my left leg and my right.  ~G.M. Trevelyan

If you are seeking creative ideas, go out walking.
Angels whisper to a man
when he goes for a walk. 
~Raymond Inmon

Me thinks that the moment my legs begin to move,
my thoughts begin to flow. 

~Henry David Thoreau

My father considered a walk among the mountains
as the equivalent of churchgoing. 
~Aldous Huxley

 
Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake. 
~Wallace Stevens

After a day’s walk everything has twice
its usual value.  ~George Macauley Trevelyan

I only went out for a walk and finally
concluded to stay out till sundown,
for going out, I found, was really going in.
~John Muir, 1913, in L.M. Wolfe, ed.,
The Unpublished Journals of John Muir, 1938

A pedestrian is someone who
thought there were a couple of gallons
left in the tank.  ~Author Unknown

He who limps is still walking. 
~Stanislaw J. Lec

There is this to be said for walking:
It’s the one mode of human locomotion by which
a man proceeds on his own two feet, upright, erect,
as a man should be, not squatting on his rear haunches
like a frog. 
~Edward Abbey

Walking isn’t a lost art – one must,
by some means, get to
the garage. 
~Evan Esar

If you are walking to seek, ye shall find. 
~Sommeil Liberosensa
 

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk. 
~Jacqueline Schiff

We live in a fast-paced society.  Walking slows us down. 
~Robert Sweetgall

An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day. 
~Henry David Thoreau

The night walked down the sky with the moon in her hand. 
~Frederick L. Knowles

A dog is one of the remaining reasons why some
people can be persuaded to go for a walk. 
~O.A. Battista

If you pick ’em up, O Lord, I’ll put ’em down.
~Author Unknown, “Prayer of the
Tired Walker”

My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty.
She’s ninety-three today and we don’t
know where the hell she is.  ~Ellen DeGeneres