Unlike many who are on the internet, I am trying to fool no one. This is because I have been a fool more than once. Oh yeah, believe it or not I have made more mistakes than most anybody else. I’d use the phrase, “believe it or not” but that is a huge concession isn’t it. Never thought about it? Yeah, I have a penchant for thinking about off-the-wall things of common parlance. Not that I am special, I am certainly not special, but because I get bored with the same bromides uttered since I was but a boy.
This coming month I will turn seventy-seven and that is just pure luck. A little over a decade ago I damn near was dead. Last breath kind of dead. I beat it, but with help from above or else I would have trouble populating this website with my prattle. Now, death unattained is life. I’ll take it but who knows how long. I certainly have no clear idea so I speak of it with humor because there ain’t nuthin I can do about it. Justs keep up the work I love to do and let matters be what they will be.
This all means that over a decade ago I had to relearn to walk. It was, I believe, easier this time around because I kind of knew how not to fall on my ass or face, side or upside down. I got an A+ for learning to walk which I didn’t get when I was one year old. I guess my parents were not impressed by my walking first go round. If they were I don’t remember them clapping and slapping each other on the back. “There that little blighter goes!” Those are words I can’t recall.
I love walking! I now walk three to four miles a day and my average speed, thanks to my smart watch, is 3.3 mph. A far cry from over a decade ago. The smart watch, a Samsung Galaxy, tells me how far and how fast I’ve gone. Beats the heck out of a pedometer of which I went through at least ten in one year. I mention this because walking is as cheap as what you spend on a pair of shoes, feels great, and is less dangerous than skiing down a slope that cost you an easy three hundred dollars to ski on. Three hundred dollars can buy you a smart watch and then you can walk for years and not spend another three hundred dollars which means you can afford wonderful party to celebrate your love of walking and saving money you would have spent for a gym membership, or some such nonsense.
Go walk for a few days in a row and get back to me as to how you found a new “thing” that you do, anyway, each day of your life. It helps the spirit, whatever that is in your reckoning of the surreal.
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