LONG WALK TO FREEDOM

Of all the various physical activities I have done, running and walking are at the topmost. Running is an endurance activity that is as painful as it is enjoyable. As you run past buildings, trees, vehicles and people-a strange kind of freedom engulfs oneself. I can't put it into words.But the feeling is liberating. Even walking does it. You are free of bondages. You can feed your mind with all the crap in the world. A simple walk can bring more questions than you are prepared to answer. More answers than there are questions. An entire gamut of it. All this while,your legs carry you. Its almost a ritual. But with each step, you have surrounded yourself to the environment. Walk and the mountains move behind you. You have left them far behind. The wind caresses your being. We do far too many things with a rational or a specific purpose in mind. Walking, running should have no purpose. Then it enables you to get very far. We have never traversed the roads,the parks,the mountains under our feet. There is a whole planet waiting for us. It does not get discovered by us, having wandered it's path. They were always there. We discover ourself. And that is the eternal truth.Keep walking. Keep running. Then even time stops!