Running

[martinemonster]

I think the reason that grown-ups are lazy is that kids are told not to run by their parents and teachers. Today, two kids came with their father to the clinic. While he was getting treated, they had a 20-30minutes competition to see who could run fastest in the back of our clinic. Forth and back, forth and back. It's a long time since I've seen anybody that happy. Of course, their dad berated them when he was done with his treatment for making too much noise and I felt kinda sad.

As I was on my way to my appointment at the hairdresser's later in the day, I realized that I was late and decided to run instead of walk to the place (it's down the hall from the clinic). It was exhilerating! Of course I had to ignore angry stares from every single patient I passed on the way, but I did and just kept on smiling. See, if I hadn't been constantly told not to run in the halls or in the store when I was a kid, I might have the lung capasity of a normal human being, and not an 80-year-old chain smoker.

Comments

running suck

[sortkatt.livejournal.com]

As one of those telling kids not to run indoors, I'd like to advocate my view on this: Running kids are fucking noisy. Especially if you have between 15 and 25 of the little buggers. If you meet kids every other week, and in as small portions as you seem to have done, this is probably ok. Thing is, this kind of noise is kinda like being hit without much force on the same spot over and over. One punch is no problem. 20 is still ok. On 40-50 it starts to hurt, and when it reaches a couple of hundred, you just want it to stop.

I imagine this parent was kinda tired of the noisy little bastards too.

(And in school, they bump into things, other kids, start screaming wildly for the excitement of running and so forth too. Gods!)

Re: running suck

[martinemonster.livejournal.com]

Ah, I get the reason why people don't want kids to run in hallways, but I do miss being able to run forever.

[mirazandar.livejournal.com]

forrestforrestgump.

I tried to run everywhere after seeing forrest gump, but realised i always weore backpacks or had bare feet, and that that wasn't too comfy.

[martinemonster.livejournal.com]

I get that, but kids have a tendency of not caring if they're barefoot or have backpacks.