On walking and Bed
However hackneyed it might be, I must tell that walking is a good exercise. When I say walking, I mean brisk walking that works up a sweat ,helps burn extra calorie and leaves a general well-being for all of us. Health benefits that brisk walking offers to diabetics and to people with hypertension are immense. Doctors and health care professionals all across the world prescribe walking, at least for five days in a week for all to maintain a healthy life.
On the whole walking is a part of a regimen for good health.
However, at the same time walking is a part of intellectual life also. Rousseau who wrote 'The Social Contract' also wrote ' Reveries of a solitary walker'. It follows that Rousseau conceived many of his ideas while going for a walk.So is the case with Nietzsche.Coleridge's post-dinner walk for 16 miles just to post a letter is well known. Dequincey calculated that by middle age Wordsworth walked 180,000 miles . The poet who wrote:
'One impulse from a vernal wood
may teach you more of man,
Of moral evil and of good,
Than all the sages can.'
Our existence is nothing but a succession of moments perceived through senses. I am sure Wordsworth perceived his moments through his extra-sensitive senses while on walking tours. And subsequently he transformed them into a kind of spiritualized emotion.
With explosion in automobile industry, peoples' mobility has largely become mechanized. However, because of the health benefits , people still walk( with a mobile in ears).
The end of walking may lead us to end of ideas also.
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'We spend more than a third of our lives in a bed. The bed is one of the rare places where we adopt roughly speaking a horizontal posture. The others are much more specialized : operating table,bench in a sauna,chaise-loungue,beach,psychoanalyst's couch.....' Wrote Georges Perec in Species of spaces and other pieces.
What do you keep with you when you are on bed? I keep my mobile phone. I like to sms and talk to my dear and near ones from my bed. And yes I sleep better on my own bed than some one else's. I am sure it happens with you too. Proust wrote the first sentence in his great novel'A la recherche du temps':" For a long time I went bed early'. But I cannot go to my bed early(Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy wealthy and wise). The temptation is always there though. And for how many people a bed is made for? Perec writes beautifully:' The bed is an instrument conceived for the nocturnal repose of one or two persons,but no more'. Thus he precludes a diurnal nap and a family of three or four may not like his idea. For me a bed is for one person-be it nocturnal or diurnal repose.
Bed is also a place where we dream most. Is day dreaming equally possible on bed?
I can remember my nights of bed-wetting when I was a child and all the trouble my granny took next morning for washing the bed linens. At times I crave for a sort of oedipal nostalgia as I cannot remember when I slept with my mother last.
Like walking, I am sure, bed can also be a generator many outstanding intellectual ideas. This can be subject of good research.
What do you think...eh?
However hackneyed it might be, I must tell that walking is a good exercise. When I say walking, I mean brisk walking that works up a sweat ,helps burn extra calorie and leaves a general well-being for all of us. Health benefits that brisk walking offers to diabetics and to people with hypertension are immense. Doctors and health care professionals all across the world prescribe walking, at least for five days in a week for all to maintain a healthy life.
On the whole walking is a part of a regimen for good health.
However, at the same time walking is a part of intellectual life also. Rousseau who wrote 'The Social Contract' also wrote ' Reveries of a solitary walker'. It follows that Rousseau conceived many of his ideas while going for a walk.So is the case with Nietzsche.Coleridge's post-dinner walk for 16 miles just to post a letter is well known. Dequincey calculated that by middle age Wordsworth walked 180,000 miles . The poet who wrote:
'One impulse from a vernal wood
may teach you more of man,
Of moral evil and of good,
Than all the sages can.'
Our existence is nothing but a succession of moments perceived through senses. I am sure Wordsworth perceived his moments through his extra-sensitive senses while on walking tours. And subsequently he transformed them into a kind of spiritualized emotion.
With explosion in automobile industry, peoples' mobility has largely become mechanized. However, because of the health benefits , people still walk( with a mobile in ears).
The end of walking may lead us to end of ideas also.
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
'We spend more than a third of our lives in a bed. The bed is one of the rare places where we adopt roughly speaking a horizontal posture. The others are much more specialized : operating table,bench in a sauna,chaise-loungue,beach,psychoanalyst's couch.....' Wrote Georges Perec in Species of spaces and other pieces.
What do you keep with you when you are on bed? I keep my mobile phone. I like to sms and talk to my dear and near ones from my bed. And yes I sleep better on my own bed than some one else's. I am sure it happens with you too. Proust wrote the first sentence in his great novel'A la recherche du temps':" For a long time I went bed early'. But I cannot go to my bed early(Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy wealthy and wise). The temptation is always there though. And for how many people a bed is made for? Perec writes beautifully:' The bed is an instrument conceived for the nocturnal repose of one or two persons,but no more'. Thus he precludes a diurnal nap and a family of three or four may not like his idea. For me a bed is for one person-be it nocturnal or diurnal repose.
Bed is also a place where we dream most. Is day dreaming equally possible on bed?
I can remember my nights of bed-wetting when I was a child and all the trouble my granny took next morning for washing the bed linens. At times I crave for a sort of oedipal nostalgia as I cannot remember when I slept with my mother last.
Like walking, I am sure, bed can also be a generator many outstanding intellectual ideas. This can be subject of good research.
What do you think...eh?
