The other day, while traversing a zebra crossing at a leisurely pace, a car almost ran over me. ‘Come on boyo, hurry up, will you? This isn’t a park!’ shouted the driver. Indeed! My foot had barely touched the pavement when the car vroom-vroomed, rushing past me at great speed, brushing my back ever so … Continue reading Hey! Slow Down!
Yesterday was my birthday. My twenty-third. The problem with that is not that time passes too quickly, but that it passes at all. As one birthday succeeds another they lose their significance and gradually acquire fatalistic connotations. Another birthday, another milestone on the highway to Lady Death... I can understand why children and people with … Continue reading Happy Birthday to Me!
Is there a more pleasant, refreshing, healthy, and philosophical activity than walking? Most of us take walking for granted, doing it because we have to, as a means to an end: to reach the grocery shop across the street, to lose weight, or to take the dog out. But is it not a delightful activity … Continue reading The Joy of Walking
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