In my walk this morning as I was walking down a flyover, I
saw another person jogging up the flyover coming in the opposite direction. The
person was quite obese and was huffing and puffing his way up the flyover. And
there I was, just strolling down the flyover.
This post is not for propagating for or against jogging or
walking or for comparing my fitness versus the other person. Nevertheless a few
random thoughts occurred to me:
1. It’s easy to walk rather than jog and it’s easy to go
down the flyover rather than going up.
2. Had the other person walked early on in life, he would
probably not be forced to jog now.
3. Attending to early warning signals in life, in whatever sphere,
is far better than fire fighting at a later stage.
4. In the same breath, when it comes to health prevention is
better than cure.
5. If we indeed to adhere to early warning signals in our
life well in time and change our diet/ lifestyle for the better, we wouldn't be
painfully forced to do it at a later point (which more often than not could
turn out futile).
I certainly meant no offence to the person who was jogging
up today. In fact, it’s good that he has at least started now - Better late
than never. However in life starting early, driving slowly and reaching safely
could prove far more useful.
