Why should the popular media have monopoly over fearmongering? Hence I too shall contribute to the sense of paranoia out there.
Off late I have seen a growing trend among the health conscious to 'walk in reverse'. Not just spinning their arms and stretching whilst walking but actually walk in the opposite direction to where their eyes are pointing.
(ridiculous definition # 1 - conscious - any ditz with the subjective awareness of the aspects of cognitive processing and the content of the mind - I wonder if anything walking on the street is processing anything other than getting through the day).
The trend is pronounced in the Asian community surely due to some Yin yang in central China having propounded the belief that this is good for you ..
(ridic def # 2 - Asian - people hailing from China, Mongolia, India and other island nations in the South Asian latitudes - too many to name).
Now its catching on - More Indians too are falling prey to this ritual. I am no health expert but I can see this getting to Epidemic proportions like the Whole Foods movement did.
Now in the civilized societies like America we are used to stop for pedestrian crossings and people crossing across using these marked lanes. However we have never seen one going in reverse - not turn around and walk back type - simply a person walking backwards.
(ridic def # 3 - Civilized - countries that practice the law of issuing a ticket for jaywalking to fellow humans absent the Jay of course).
Imagine that along with the sign spinners on the sidewalks we also now have to contend with folks that you would never know were coming or going? Imagine sitting at a light and the person goes walking backward in the sidewalk...what are the laws about this approach?
Not a problem in third world countries who are used to this and much more by way of unimaginable obstacles occupying their modes of transit but to us coddled versions where even a vehicle with 'odd' number of wheels tends to bring stares.
Here is another essay on the subject of first names. As in birth names. Or names provided to an offspring at birth. While the developed world tends to shy away from the exotic like Refrigerator or Coca Cola for their new production there is a plethora of Jims and Johns and Bobs or Robs. Speaking of which I do not think there is a categoric decision point at the time of birth if a child will be hereafter called as Bob. I mean have not yet met a toddler called Bob or Rob for that matter. At some point though the parental instinct to mouth out multiple syllables runs out and they switch from calling the crawler Robert to simply Robbie to Rob. Now speaking of - it is strange that the name sounds like something you would not want Rob to do - i.e. Rob anyone. Then why call someone that? After all Rob Peter to Pay Paul is not exactly a maxim to live a young life? Is it? Perhaps Peter or Paul might want to have a say in it? Then there is this matter of going to the John. Why degrad...
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