On doing nothing part ii

I congratulate you if you had finished reading my previous post of approx 3000 words. 3001 to be exact.

I assure you that this post would be at least 10 times shorter.

I shall talk about the gym(:

Patronizing self-help books regale us with various bullet-pointed strategies to become more productive, less drunk and more hard-working. Men's and women's magazines employ body anxiety to send us to that modern torture chamber. Did you even know such a modern torture chamber exists? No, it is not those used to get confessions out of terrorists that we see broadcast on the news. Nor is it those waterboarding techniques. It is something i call a gym. We toil all day, mug in school, do homework and tutorials, and after such a tiring day, we PAY for the pleasure of running on a treadmill! Kudos man.

Adverts for electronic personal organizers imply that this wonderful gadget will help us achieve robotic perfection! Just look at all those fantasy schedules which appear in ads for "Organizers" (as if these will magically organize your life when you buy them). They invariably start with the line:

7AM. Gym.

For many others, their last activity of the day is also, "Gym".

I dont visit the gym. I go to the park. All i wished was that there was this travellator around the whole park, so all i needed to do was stand on it and the whole park would walk around me.

Going for pub now(: Shall continue later