Come Let's go on a Walk...

Main roomie no. 124….
Subah jaldi uthh,apni balcony se dekhta hoon,
Din hafte mahine main badalte dekhta hoon…

Kabhi dekhta hoon un walkers ko,
Jo subah shayad walk karne aate hain,
Koi kehta hain who walk karne nahi, lekin kuch aur karne aate hain…..
Gorgeous ladkiyaan buddho je saath main dekhta hoon,
Woh mujhe apni Moti hindi teacher aur unke Activa ki yaad dilate hain….

Main roomie no. 124 …
Apni hostel main rehte rehte,
Ek nayi subah hote dekhta hoon …..

Well for many a reasons(including the above..) I truthfully confess the early morning time is my favourite among the 12 periods of the day.
Early morning is a symbol of strength.. of a new beginning.. to ward of all sorrows.. a sign of Hope.. End of yesterday.. a Bright road ahead.. a day more older and mature.. and many many more philosophical reasons for a person. Now if you are interested to read them then don’t worry, I am shortly writing a book- “A Thousand reasons to wake up…”

But for a student like me the reasons to get up in the morning may be listed as, A day nearer to weekends.. A day full of bunks.. A day when I will look forward to eating good food (am an absolute food maniac).. A day when I will meet my G.F .. A day when I can again set out to play.. A day again to meet my gang.. etc… Well I don’t think am writing a book on this one.

But seriously I do wake up early and like to see the blue serene sky and the radiant golden Sun and the feeling of its warmth on your back is just amazing. Well so once I decided to get up early and go for a walk, just before the end of semester exams. Boy that morning my alarm struck at 6 A.M. I got up and hastily clad myself in a T-shirt, Jeans and a Jacket. As soon as you get out of the hostel you get an impression of night still falling and a strange whisper calling you back to sleep. But I stood firm and started one of those those serious walks. After i walked, say a couple of minutes, I really woke up and could now see people walking all the way. Well the college campus is the HUB for morning walkers.

I could see a group of some old people marching ahead of me, all clad in sweaters. You could feel they are really taking the walk seriously because they didn’t notice anyone or anything else in any direction , discussing key political issues or topics on filmstars and what not. The other day I heard them discussing the lack of sugar in tea!!

I slowed myself to stay away from the discussion. Next my eyes caught a beautiful young lady clad in grey jog suit, a long pony tail and a black hair band, hoping along her way and listening to her music player. Man did she look awesome or what !! As she passed me, she gave a glance and I stupefied gave a wide recognizing smile in return. I think she smiled in return as well. I never saw her again in life !!!
Well you get those hiccups in life when you start something new I thought. But seriously when amidst young boys (except me ofcourse.. ) you talk of morning walks… they visualize the only thing I said above.

One of the many reasons I am fascinated by morning walks is that I come to see many diverse kinds of folk coming to burn out their calories for an hour in a green campus. There are many reasons ofcourse of their initiatives. A fat person comes to burn his fat, a young lady may come to stay fit, to make a new boyfriend or she already has one and she doesn’t want him to feel that she is fat. Old people come to walk to have some company, whether be it amusing or not. The other day I also saw a businessman doing a light jog in his trousers and shirt and he was narrating his views to one of the fellow walkers on FDI’s and his industrial capacity. I certainly think now that his capacitance would be in some Mega Farads!!! Well that’s not all, you also see couples walking together, sometimes hand in hand and sometimes one’s hand on his/her back.(embarrassing others …I mean please carry that at your home,would you ?). Then there are absolute Arnold type muscular guys in their shorts and Tshirts jogging (Maybe practicing for the next half marathon..) and all this guys on one side and people like me coming around once a life time, on the other side.

Well to continue with my experience that day, I almost got passed PMC, Senti-bridge and got outside the campus. Well no offence but you get a whole different angle of things there. The uncle that I saw pushing himself very hard for the jog was enjoying what was a Bread role. Now I can understand that the bread role outside my campus is world renown and people come from diff. parts of the city to have it, but this was just too much for his part. Burning a 100 calories and gaining a double of that. This was but a common site there. Having tea, vadapav, omlettes , all gushing through your stomach after a nice walk.
Well I remembered the Roothraj Tea stall back at home, where I had a nice maska bun after a short walk. It was absolutely tasty! But that was when I was small.

Hmm.. I stayed there a while to take some rest. Apart from the normal crowd a group a small skaters practicing on the main road. I went nearer. The instructor was on some topic shouting on one of those kids. The next 10-15 minutes had made my day. I then returned to my hostel. I took my bath and continued my normal routine that day. But all around people asked me why I was very fresh and lively that day. I told it was nothing. Actually it was.

Actually you see I have a tendency to look out for interesting instances in life and to enjoy them. When I heard the instructor speaking, I remembered my P.T teacher in school. He used to speak rather hindi with English phrases. He used to speak a loud “Buddhu…” which means stupid in a very long tone. The same was the case with the instructor. The instructor then spoke-“Only for you boy go… and one round more do !” I am not sure whether you can understand that. It was a laugh riot for me. I will enact the part personally if you ask me later.
Now coming back to the topic of morning walks. That afternoon I told my friends that it was a good experience and asked them if they would like to accompany me the next day,I got very ‘humane’ answers. KK complained about his less sleep of about 6 hours and denied. Kake denied telling he had trouble not with waking up but was feeling lazy to get up and get ready. Venu, a big elephant as he is said, “I will definitely come to walk if I can wake up” laying a big emphasis on his ‘IF’. Well I couldn’t ask Pappu as he is one of those guys who would sleep late in the night.
In short I think its like ki whether Morning walks are good or not, interesting or not people believe in this short snippet.

“Laziness is our biggest enemy.”- J. Nehru.
“We should learn to love our enemies.”-MK Gandhi.