Walk The Talk - What A Joke!

Walking should be more fun, says Sanjay Chhel, as he looks around at the increasing multitude of determined and purposeful walkers.

- Sanjay Chhel

A professor, as expected, was always busy amidst piles of papers and obviously couldn’t find time for his family or bachhas. Absent-minded or careless is the tag they often carry in society. But our professor sahib was genuinely neck-deep in work and in a state of self-arrest for so long time that he was oblivious to the outside world. One day professor sahib’s wife had had enough and confronted him on his exile, “Which world are you living in Mr. Professor? Do you even know that our daughter has started walking since the last six months?” With a surprised and naïve expression professor replied, “Oh, walking since last six months? She must have really gone far by now?” His wife collapsed with a shock...

Walking is definitely a most interesting act. In fact walking is the ‘in thing’ among the exercise maniacs. Undoubtedly it has a fair share of health benefits. But the hype around it is way too much! The social media is full of various marathons in every city where the enthused are running in multicolored tracks with perpetual grins, as if they have conquered death itself! It’s very sad that they feel victorious over mortals like us who can not even walk properly on Mumbai’s roads, forget about running!