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My eyes were closed, and I was enjoying the fresh morning breeze which was blowing with all its grace. They say that this breeze is good for health, so I was taking deep breaths, imagining the fresh air entering my lungs and refreshing my blood. Then I opened my eyes.
Everything, which was supposed to be there, was there in front of me. I could see the trees. I could see the grass. I could see the jogging track. I could see the park’s wall. I could see the metallic fence on that wall. I could see those labourers outside the park’s wall waiting for jobs. I could see everything which was supposed to be there. The only difference was, that everything I was watching was upside-down.
Correction: my body was hanging upside-down.
I remember when, in my matriculation holidays, I used to go with my buddy, Hassan, for jogging and a little bit of exercising. We used to jog on the one kilometer track, then jump around, twisting our bodies in ulti seedhi positions, convincing ourselves that we are exercising. Then we would sit down on the grass and watch other people doing some real ulta seedha stuff. We used to watch them and we used to laugh at them. Little did we know that what they were doing is the real exercise, and exercises can be a lot more ulti seedhi than that.
Now that I have started “exercising” again (thanks to Wse who used to come and wake me up every morning; nowadays he’s enjoying the holidays at his village), I do all that stuff I used to laugh at some years earlier. I hang myself upside down. I stretch my arms, shoulders, back and legs, and try my best not to imagine what I am looking like. I try doing some hard stuff and then give up, imagining that people are not looking at me and are busy doing their own exercises. I do crunches, I do frog jumps, I do this, I do that. And I am happy that I am not a lazy giraffe anymore.
Well, at least in these holidays.
8 comments
reformed
Mar 9, 2004 at 5:02 pm
one random reaction.
dunno why, but i had lonely, longinly looking comment boxes.
YaS
Mar 9, 2004 at 8:08 pm
good job bro! i’m glad to hear u’re into exercising too. I like jogging as well. push-ups are good to build up strength too. Do you go to a gym at all bro? (i’m guessing u’re in pindi?) btw, i like your layout alot, especially that pic!
yasmine
Mar 10, 2004 at 2:52 pm
Such a lovely post. Made me smile. =) I especially loved tha last paragraph. Keep doing what you’re doing, and never think of what others think of you.
reformed kvetcher
Mar 10, 2004 at 7:33 pm
you do frog jumps. you are not a lazy giraffe anymore. you hand upside down like a bat as a work out. the pic on te top is of tigger…
might as well rename your blog, add in something to the effect of a zoo…or at least a menagerie…
and if you are jogging all the way down southwest, lemme know, i wud be at the other end ofthe sea to receive you! ha!
imran
Mar 11, 2004 at 11:58 pm
at last you have got “”Your Baad-e-Saba”". koi gal nain “”Dj’s Baad-e-Baran is waintin’ 4 u as well.
Saadat
Mar 12, 2004 at 12:25 pm
YaS: Yeah, I am in Pindi, and no, I don’t go to any gym. Nowadays I am preferring body weight exercises only. And thanks for liking the layout
Yasmine: Thanks. And yep, never think of what others think of you. That’s why I think many people are alive!
AWK: Hahaha, nice idea. Magar kabhi kabhi mein insaaniyat ke jaamay mein bhi aa jaya karta hon, so I guess ulta seedha is alright
Imran: Yaar, dil ke behlanay ko koi acha khayal rehnay to diya karo!
Jaded
Mar 14, 2004 at 4:28 am
Eww exercise? *hides*
Hhahahaha frog jumps? Now that I gotta see, complete with “ribbits” of course
Karl
Mar 14, 2004 at 3:35 pm
LOL at the lion.
Give my regards to WSE that he helped u out of that laziness. May GOD belss him. And for u Saadat, man make it ur routine, it won’t cost u any extra bucks. Infact u will feel proud when u will see real frogs jumping.