It Went Like This
April 09, 2010 // Posted by: admin // Category: GeneralWalking is so under-rated. People are too busy thinking about skin care treatments to marvel at the thing they need to do to get to stores who sell these treatments. Never has there been such a fantastic thing. I mean, it’s ingenious. I imagine the first time anyone (a human being type Neanderthal man, that is) walked it went something like this: (grunts translated for easy reading.)
Man 1: “Ugh, we need to get to that boulder. Over there.”
Man 2: “Ugh, what boulder?”
Man 1 sighs and points: “Ugh, that boulder.”
Man 2: “Ugh, wait, I mean–What is a boulder?”
Man 1 tries to suppress his rage and not kill Man 2: “Ugh, it’s that thing that is heavy and like a big stone.”
Man 2: “Ugh, right–Why exactly?”
Man 1: “Ugh, so we can roll it down hill and land it upon the heads of buffalo and kill them and eat them, of course.”
Man 2: “Ugh, makes sense. So let’s go then.”
Man 1 watches in astonishment as Man 2 travels over to the boulder as if by magic–His legs–he’s using them one by one in a way he has never seen: “Ugh! What is this!”
Man 2 turns: “What? I’m walking?”
Man 1: “Walking? This is what it is called!?”
Man 2 shrugs: “Yes–you should try it some time, then you wouldn’t be so fat.”
This was the first time a man was conscious of his weight, and what a day it was–
And walking was born!