To Run Or Not To Run…
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Today I went for the morning walk little earlier than the time I usually go. I thought of start jogging today. It’s almost been a month I had started walking. The sole reason for the walk session was that someday, I would start running. I have already written here about my fascination for running which is growing gradually, without any reason. But once on the road, I feel it difficult to start running. I just walk… what you call a brisk walk of 45/50 minutes. My heart advices me to take a leap and just run like a wild horse, but my brain gives many reasons why I should not. It shows me the fellow morning walk goers and makes me imagine myself running… err rather huffing-n-puffing in front of all those people. In my imagination, I look like a big ping-pong ball bouncing up and down on the road. So, even-if my heart keeps on trying to get my bulls**t brain washed away, I cling and listen to my brain only and never run.
Today, I decided to go with my heart, as it assured me that if today I run then all those office politics getting jammed in my thoughts will be blown away with the wind. It takes me around 15 minutes to reach the place which is almost vehicle free and the road is comparatively smoother than the road near my house, so a safe street to walk/run. Let’s call it Jogger’s street 
. So once I reached at the Jogger’s street, my heart again started pushing me for “The Run”. But still I was not quite comfortable. I don’t know, but I just could not start it.
While I was tossing and turning between my brain and heart, a boy came from one of those side lanes, went to the road-side temple, took a bow and then started RUNNING, just like that. It was so easy for him… he just ran and I kept on looking at the merrily running figure getting smaller and smaller with every passing second and finally disappearing from my sight. It was so pleasurable (but I was jealous of him too) to watch him run like that. My heart started pushing me harder and with each of its beats, I could hear one thing “NOW OR NEVER”. I looked back; there was nobody… that means it’s safe to start running without anybody seeing me. But my legs were not permitting me to take the leap as my brain had enslaved them. My brain was still busy calculating how many times I can actually bounce up and down with this heavy body. I was becoming more and more restless.
I don’t know how much time passed by before I realized that there was wind on face and I was speeding past few people walking on the road… Yes, I was running… my heart beat increased and with that increased my speed. Well, it did not last for more than 2 minutes; but what matters is that, I finally RAN and that made my whole day, as I said,
I wish I could run,
At-least for a while,
If not a mile… 
. Sometimes, we play antakshari… (Ahem… yes, we are that illogical to play antakshari on chain mails!!!) The topic always changes, from weird to weirdest, but from the last 3 and half years, our “E-Khatti” rocks. 
