Get moving! Start living!

# Chapter 113

“You walked all the way up here?” Was the question that the man asked us at the top of the small mountain. What was flabbergasting us most, was how FEW people were walking, and how many people were driving up this lovely 2.78 mile trek. It was beautiful, but it can’t be experienced in a drive-by fashion. This trek was perfect for walking, even though it had some steep parts along the way. A warm Fall day and colors to be seen if you weren’t moving too fast. These can only been enjoyed and experienced on foot. Get moving. Start living!

But walking is not a usual practice in America. It definitely is a usual and typical practice in the rest of the world. We walk everywhere. We walk all the time. Americans walk nowhere. Americans don’t walk even to their mailbox! As I ride my bicycle (another thing Americans don’t do that the rest of the world does regularly) around the county, I see people driving their cars out to the mailbox all the time. My dad gets upset when he hears me voice this discussion, because he believes he can’t walk. But I disagree, he “can’t” walk because he doesn’t. The only thing you can do to hurt your body in one sense, is not use it. The top of the hill we were on yesterday was proof of people not using their bodies.

The worse part of it, was the dust that these cars kicked up for the few walkers/runners/bikers, as they were tearing up and down the mountain. It is bad enough that they won’t take care of their own bodies, but worse yet that they spray those who are, with wild dust storms.

Get moving. Start living!