The Pleasure Of Walking

Walking is one of the best exercises. If we walk two miles a day, it keeps us healthy. We have no physical problems but unluckily nowadays people have so many facilities that they do not like to walk. Now-a-days we have cycles, petrol-drive motor cars, railway trains and electric trams, with motor buses running all over the country. It is so easy to ride and our climate is so hot at times that there is a great temptation for man to become over mechanised. Our grand fathers were hardier in this respect. And a walk of ten or fifteen miles was a very ordinary affair to them. It is said that if we cease to use any part of body nature will take away that gift.

Scientists say that men of future ages will have short, weak legs, but very strong and powerful arms. Now this has proved true. With the new inventions and with the modern age people do not prefer walking to riding a bus. They use their body a little. The body was given us to use, and the exercise is the normal tonic of the body. Good digestion. A good heart and lungs are only possible to one who indulges in natural exercise. Games are very good swimming is excellent and so is gymnastics and thrill. But all these will not quite make up for failure to walk a certain every day.

The gentle and prolonged exercise of walking has a beneficial. I must admit I like to set out late for school, and depend on a quick dash on my bicycle to cover the two miles the journey. But on the day when I set out in good time and walk distance in thirty minutes i feel better for the day. I do better work and sleep better at night. Try it if you don’t believe me. Moreover this was the only secret of the health of our forefathers. They enjoyed a very good health and long life because they used to walk a lot.

A really long walk on a holiday is thing of a joy. On some holidays, along with our friends, I go to a little station about five miles out of the city, then we walk along a broad road, but presently leave it for a small.