I am in the fourth week of my power walking and weight loss program and one thing I can say is that I have got the entire program embedded into my daily routine and process. Now if I don’t go for my walk I feel restless, I feel the day has gone by but something is still missing, I have started having a lot of fruits during the day like apples, pears, and fruit juices. The entire day is only a liquid diet, tomato soup, bowl full of yellow dal tow Katori of chicken corn soup. I have stopped having even roti’s nowadays and supplement that with a few toast and a boiled egg for breakfast. I have lost the taste for rice, mutton, cheese, and butter they mean nothing to me now.
Along with my morning schedule, I walk schedule I am able to clock 9 to 10 km of power walking a day. I try and lose myself in my head as I walk it helps as one loses a sense of time. I perspire while brisk walking and keep having large gulps of water from my bottle. The other day I felt like taking a pee and quickly ran behind a tree to take a piss, a student coming from the back shouted,” Uncle that is the pipal tree you are pissing under its a scared tree, stop …” saying this he turned and glared at me, I had no choice but to finish my leek and then I sheepishly walked passed him as if I had not even heard what he had said.
Yes indeed there are a lot of Pipal trees in the BHU campus along the way and I managed to click a few of them. In ancient Vedic tradition, the Pipal tree is magical and is worshipped as sacred and pious. They say that Ghosts and Preet at ma reside in the Pipal tree. They do look large and splendid in the night though.
I took an electric rickshaw back from the campus area and was happy that some students were my fellow travelers.” You know we are the number one university in the world in terms of size we have the largest campus of all .” A fellow student called Nitesh sitting in front of me reminded me .” Well is it not IIT I am sure the IIM’s also has a huge campus .” I was surprised as I thought the statement was not entirely true .” I am sure BHU is one of the oldest and ancient of our universities, in fact, my mother studied here too. But in terms of infrastructure and technology, there are many large universities in India .” My reply startled the young man who likes a frog in a well thought that the well was the entire universe .” No no, we have the let set technology and the largest number of subjects are taught here, you can come here and study in any stream of your choice .” The young man went on to acquaint me that he was not entirely wrong. I quite like the rickshaw ride at times and take it on my way back when I ahem finished my walk.