Regular exercise
is the key to tricking our bodies into thinking that we are alive
A month or two
ago I was walking to lunch on a brisk, late winter day when some guy walking
in the opposite direction said something about "chill" to me.
Was this guy telling me to chill? Nobody tells me to chill. Under
normal conditions, I am barely conscious unless I am drunk, in which case
I am yelling. In this case I was not yelling.
Puzzled and
mildly annoyed, I re-played the passerby's comment over and over,
backwards and forwards, as if it were that grassy knoll home movie from
the 60's. Factoring in the stiff breeze that the man was bracing
against at the time of his utterance, my brain's built-in algorithm for
completing partial phrases based on known syllables was able to reconstruct
the man's exclamation as "WIN' CHILL FACTA!"
To this day
I am unsure whether the man was making a sociable comment about the weather,
or if at that moment he had been struck with the perfect name for his R&B
act.
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