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Kids Today
By Administrator | December 18, 2006
Today is not going to be a very energetic one for me. Yesterday, I took a nice long nap after my snow-clearing exercise and found that I didn’t sleep well during the night as a result (also because my hubby was somewhat restless - he starts a new job today and didn’t sleep well, either). I’m hoping that someday I may have the physical capacity to have a bad night and still get up ready to do some form of exercise. Back when I was in high school, I had a long string of bad nights due to some serious insomnia and I still managed to get myself out for my daily walk to a school that was quite some distance from our house and to participate in the physical activity that was our P.E. class for the day. I especially liked the swimming, dancing, and roller skating components of the class…not the running so much, though I wish I’d tried harder now.
My point is that I was once capable of getting myself out to do physical activity of some sort despite the fact that I was pretty tired most of the time. Kids and teenagers definitely don’t appreciate their boundless energy as much as they should. These days I’m happy if I can get myself out of the house for a brief walk. Driving myself (and a lot of my family) around all the time has definitely diminished my capacity to get out and walk the way I should.
Since I live so close to my current job, I need to start getting myself there by foot. I’m not going to start today because it’s way too cold and I don’t know whether I’d be able to bundle myself up enough. I’m definitely going to walk to work some time this week though, if only for one day, because we’re forecast to have increasingly higher temperatures in the days leading up to Christmas.
That’s a pretty simple goal. I think I might just manage to be able to walk to work for one day when I used to walk to school almost every day as a kid.
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