Walking to health......... or death( Bangalore tragedy )

Hi,

Musing # 38

All doctor's advice ,that regular morning brisk walk, as we age, keeps us fit and fine from aging & diseases and can keep our sojourn in Mother earth longer.

Like me four other aging gentlemen from Indiranagar in Bengaluru were strictly adhering to the above advice and keeping their tryst with their morning walks regularly.

They would not have ever dreamt that this healthy habit of theirs is going to be the cause of their early demise ( in the case of three ) and getting crippled ( in the case of one ), all because of one fast dude being high and driving on the side walk instead of his favourite fast lane.

This incidence is not the first of it's kind, a few years back similar tragedy took place in Navi Mumbai and two women walked to their death, as a milk van driven by a novice crashed into them in the side walk ( foot path ) and ended their sojourn in this world.

Since that incidence I have stopped my early morning walk on " Terra Fir ma "( the roads. )But I still keep my tryst with my morning walk.............. Yes, I do "high raise walking" every morning.

Living in a high raise building it is safer and nice to do the high raise walking IE. walking on the terrace of your high raise building.

I put on my sneakers and ipod and walk alone around the perimeter of my terrace for 45 Mt's. everyday.

What are the advantages of walking on the terrace alone,

Terrace advantages:

1. No vehicle driven by a novice/hung over dude will knock you down

2. You are witness to beautiful sun rise, chirping birds, changing seasons, blooming flowers from the trees.

3. Not being chased/bitten by a stray dog and getting painful shots of anti-rabies vaccine which will make you poor by 1.5 k.

4.Not getting choked by the emissions from buses/autos/trucks etc.

5.Not getting your chain snatched/getting mugged by an early rising worm(Criminal).

Alone advantages:

1. you concentrate on your walk and not the gossip

2. You can walk to your pace and not slow/hasten to your partner's pace.

3.You can chew yesterdays incidences and plan for to days activities.

4. you can stick to your schedule and not wait for others.

5. You are so alone that you do not have your mobile also with you to disturb your rhythm and contemplation.//

So, all you walkers on the Terra fir ma (roads/parks etc.), become a high raise walker to remain hale healthy and alive.

Please be realistic, there will be frustrated drunken dudes driving on the foot path, novices with / without driving licences mowing down people. So keep with the times and go vertical and go for high raise walking............ only if you are not having vertigo attacks.

Regards

mentor mohan