I like to walk...walk... walk and walk-It is a beautiful Thing

As I have scribed in previous blogs, I spend a minimum of 2 hours per day walking as part of my rehab-and this morning I was asked by someone as I was walking “Why do you spend so much of your day walking?”

My answer after some consideration was “Well you see. I found out as the result of a stroke what it was like, to be unable to do one of the most basic of human functions, walking!’

So, I want to ensure that that I never experience that again”

But there is more.

Thrill Seekers I also enjoy the solitude of the early morning, the pinkish tentacles of the sun creeping over the horizon, the sounds of suburbia stirring, the workmen getting into their trucks, off to the building sites, the sound of birds warbling as they greet the new day.

I meet my fellow early walkers, the 2 Indian ladies with their lovely sing song accents, the young mother with her 2 children in the pram out for a quick walk – the children insisting on “high fives”, the Labradoodle who recognizes me from 50 metres away and charges me for a hug! The 2 elderly ladies whose paper I pick up and put on their front steps

Then when I reach the shopping Centre at the halfway point I\{fortnightly\} treat myself to a hot crispy sausage roll from the Vietnamese bakery!! Then off I go again!

What is my point to this story?

Well children of the Cosmos, my stroke was an epiphany- a message from the Grande Buddha to change my life and lifestyle or else my days were numbered!

So, every step I take, every stepping exercise I do is a step away from that black morass \{the stroke monster\} towards a happy healthy life! Plus along the way my life is enriched with some wonderful interactions with Mother Nature and fellow humans!

Try it…. You might like it...I did