Paradoxical? Definitely. Logical, if you get the thought.
These days I live so near to my office – precisely 2.6kms – that I walk down to office almost every alternate day. What that has meant is that I take a little more time to observe my surrounding when I am walking. As a result of which I've observed shops and services which earlier never grabbed my attention.
So, yesterday I got my printer cartridge refilled. For months we weren't using the printer simply because we couldn't the cartridge refilled. And we didn't get the cartridge refilled because we didn't quite know if there were a service nearby. I was afraid I might have to spend a few hours just to locate the shop in case if it's far or in some other area. I got my work in 15 mins. That's it.
Apart from that, when in the market, it is only through some attentive observation that we come to know about things in detail or that we get some ideas. When we whizz past our surroundings on a bike or when we are locked in the air-conditioned confines of our sedan, we can hardly notice things, leave aside attentive observation.
Surely, walking takes time. But it makes my body agile. It makes my mind alert. Anything more you need to be fast?
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