Do you believe in short-cuts?

Morning walk is supposedly the best exercise that doesn’t cost a penny and helps you out with the effective mobility of all your body joints, better blood circulation and increased vitality.

Prior to visiting the religious shrines Badrinath and Kedarnath, I had consistently tried to increase the duration of my walk to be able to cope up better with the otherwise well-laid path of the hilly terrain! (Picture shows family eager to start the voyage).

When we go, say, to a nearby park for a morning walk, the idea is to walk as much as we can. But we seem to have become so used to taking short-cuts in almost every walk of life that while covering the inner boundary of the park, we turn to extreme right while taking a right turn forgetting that we in India traditionally follow the `keep to the left’ rule.

This type of short-cut (that reduces our walking distance) is not only against the goal of walking `as much as you can’ but also puts the person coming from the opposite direction in trouble.

So, the next time while embarking on our voyage to morning walk let us ask ourselves, “Do I really need to take a short-cut?”

Dr. Narendra Kumar
OptometryToday@gmail.com