Politics aside, we do not live like we plan to recreate life

If we had needed town planners, we would have told them to build our towns so that we could walk around, recreate and get a bit of exercise. 

Photo credit: Fotosearch

My master (goodness bless him!) once taught me that man shall not live by observing politics alone, and ever since I have not resisted straying into the multitude of the other things than man can live by, in conjunction, that is, with observing politics.

So, many years ago, I went into jogging, and jogged like mad, everywhere I found myself and in whatever weather condition except maybe rain or heavy snow – like I jogged in Moscow at -20 Celsius, finding it warm; drizzles I could handle most times because they reminded how we used to trudge to school back then.