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A walk in the park

I take one about everyday now. Not the usual walk in the park, as the phrase goes, but the unusual one. It is a bit brisk on the pace and has no green grass under my feet. But still I would prefer to call my thirty minute exercising routine a walk in the park. The endorphins are euphoric and bring the stress levels down considerably. Besides that my body gets time to get out of the wedlock that it has with the study chair. This is a true prototype eastern wedlock. Both are happy and unhappy with each other at the same time. The study chair has to embrace my body and there is no way out while my whole self starts aching after a usual day of rocking. Numbness that overcomes different areas of the body is not ecstatic at all yet the movement of the limbs is surely not to be missed for a dance of a sufi soul.
Water is a powerful and obstinate force. If it falls on the rock for a long period of time it gets its way eventually. Similar analogies can be seen in human mentality and attitudes. No wonder they proclaim that practice makes a man perfect. You can consider my weight to be the water that is falling down upon the rock like chair. It has already started to make way, although I am not really sure which way!
Much of what happens tomorrow depends on what you do today. Same way in 'as you so so shall you reap.' Or a more pessimistic way of depicting the thought would be 'Those who dig a hole for others, themselves fall into it.' But no one ever cared to explain what happens if you dig a hole for yourself in the first place. Does that lead to the same spirit of reciprocity or less? I have many point of views about this but do not have time to enlighten this webspace with all of them save one.
I think when you self destroy yourself you not only destroy yourself but many more who are known as your dependents either by chance or choice. Undoubtedly no human lives outside the sphere of the society and society is nothing but interaction of physical and psychological means. I have been reading a lot of newspaper reports where a mother of four (or five) kills herself but only after she has secured the same fate for all her dependents namely her children. I want to assure you that this example does not fall under the premise of above discussion. It is another anomaly of our society that I will deal with some other time. But before I close this discussion I will want to visit one other quotable that must go something like this if translated from its parent language, 'When the ship sinks it takes all the passenger along with it.'

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