Old People & Long walks
baap | 25 August 2004, 11:16amThe Walk of Life:I share many fancies with old men, really old MEN. Im talking about senior citizens...here. I specify old MEN here, because all the old MEN ive known closely are/were (the shift between tenses comes with old age....excuse me...old chaps!). Old Women in my family atleast come from that generation where they got married off at the age of 13 and now shuttle between continents. Point is i don't share my fancies with them. I feel the need to specify the word "fancies" here, i can already sense the bloody smirk on those ppl out there, fr heaven's sake I AM one of them!
All the old men in my family Love Long Walks, i mean they walk/walked like crazy, deliberated on the paradox here. They are too old to run, but they walk distances unimaginable to the younger peppier ones. I love long walks, i can too walk unfathomable distances, if needed. I can walk and talk or not talk for hours and hours, talk about anything dealing with "why men love boobs" to "the range of the Trident Sub which is capabale of carrying 24 ICBMS and has enough weaponry to blow up the whole world forty times over!". Old Men like doing that. I love my past ----> Old men literally live in their past..."Before my retirement.....". I like such talk.
I realise though i am too young to think about shit like this....fr heavens sake...i like eyeglasses with a "large field of vision"?????? WTF! im supposed to be wearing those thick framed black "retro" (bullshit) frames..or even BETTER CONTACTS MAN! Theyr Cool...! BULLSHIT...i say! (woah old man dialogue right there...who would specify the "...i say"...OLD MEN!!!). Anyway..the fact is like walking, especially when the weather conditions are right, a slight chill is also acceptable...but NO HEAT!
I have walked with a lot of people, but very few of them were actually satisfactory...the others..were well just walks. These "satisfactory" walks ive had with people, i tend to remember be it exactly 1 year back or 10 years back! Firstly, i analyse whether the walk is satisfactory, if it is, i press record! There was this one time, when i walked up the steps to a hill in vizag with my grandpa...we saw a Submarine, talked about our family's lineage (BTW one of my ancestors was a Naxalite too...Awesome!!!) and stuff like that.
Off late though i havent had such walks, and i long for one, the weather too seems promising.Old men man, they rock!!! I respect anyone who was living during the invasion of Normandy, and knew about it then! Or the rarer few who could recollect their tales on the information media about when the Titanic Sunk. (A little over the edge, nah its till 2004, 11 years more to go to lose all HOPE :p...again sorry old ppl, no way to offend you in any sort..just too good to resist!)
ALthough i love walks, its ironic, i have FLAT feet, fuck! And they say flat feeted people can walk long distances, well this is a tribute (WINKS..to the old people) to all those flat feeted people : Keep On Walking.
PS: Hey thats the catch line of Johnnie Walker....again ANCIENT stuff there too...WOO-HOO...!
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1. By UtopicIllusion | 26 Aug 2004, 9:16am
Hey baap...
Seems like ur going g
thru a difficult phase of life.
Cheers! Btw...i am posting this using lynx, a command line browser! Just for the heck of it!!!