Exercise

Unusually to-day I woke up at 5.00 am for no rhyme or reason. Eyes just opened and neither due to a nightmare nor natural call. Since eyes can’t be trusted and they are the source of all temptation, I refused to get up. It is then that I realized that I am over-weight and I need to do something about it. My mind told me that doing exercise is not a bad idea; another part of my mind said that start from tomorrow. Somewhere I have read that tomorrow is an illusion, so I decided to start the exercise immediately. Got up, brushed the teeth and put on the shoe and started moving towards the Bhiju Pattnaik Park.

The park is reasonably well maintained and it has a track on which everyone was walking or jogging. I was tempted to start jogging but my mind told me ‘slow and steady wins the race’ hence decided to start with walking. The track is one kilometer long, mentally I had determined to make three rounds. Three is a lucky and auspicious number.

With much enthusiasm and excitement, I walked like a whirl-wind, overtaking many on the way and completed the first round rather quickly. By then my energy level was reduced to fifty percent and the speed started dwindling down. To my surprised I noticed that the people whom I had overtaken were now overtaking me. I wanted to increase the speed, but I remembered the famous dialogue of sharuk khan, “har ke jitne walo ko baazigar kehte hai”.  Losing small battles indeed helps us to win the war, so I allowed them to overtake me and maintained my rhythm with a brave face.  When I completed the second round, I was down to the last one percent of my energy.

I did not want to break the resolution of making three rounds and I continued with the third round. Now even the people who were far behind me also started overtaking me; surprisingly I did not feel bad (even to feel bad you need to have energy). I was totally indifferent and fully concentrated on reaching the entrance of the park. If I reach the entrance my third round would be completed. I kept on walking but the entrance was nowhere to be seen, I thought that someone has moved the entrance to a faraway place. It was like I was walking for eternity. After a very long time, finally I reached the entrance and I was thrilled.

Then I calculated how many calories I might have burned. If one walks for a kilometer it is possible that around 50 calories might have been used. That means I have burned 150 calories. I thought of going for one more round in order to make it 200 calories, but my mind advised me not to be greedy.

I was wearing XIMB T-shirt; one lady asked me whether I am studying at XIMB. I did not know what to say. Either she thought that I look young enough to be a student or she assumed that XIMB is an old-age home where adult education is being conducted. If the former is correct then she is suffering from ‘optical illusion’ and if the latter is true then it is an ‘information disaster’ and we need to go for the brand building exercise and not for morning walk.

Also mentally I noted not to wear XIMB T-shirt for morning walk (in any case, getting up at 5.00 am is  not going to take place in near future, because accidents take place only once a year or once in two year)