Legs NOT Roots

Life does not grow roots

Gypsies keep shifting their camps

Souls move through bodies

I was watering some withering plants in my garden when I thought they have roots and will die but move. On the other hand, we have legs and would perish if we don't move! What if We the People too had physical roots locking us with the earth underneath! A strange feeling...Huh! We can't even see this static image in the mind's eye. Nature had some deep rooted plans while creating various Life forms on Earth. As per this plan some are supposed to stay stationary and grow roots while others are supposed to lead a moving life staying unattached to any single place.

For Humans Moving is living, Unmoving is dying. We all know this, but somehow in this high tech corporate culture world we tend to sit glued to a seat most of our lives. Be it a couch in the living room, or the car/bus/train/plane seat while traveling or our office chairs. I don't need to say any further what this "sitting mode" lifestyle does to our bodies. You all are informed minds.

The thing that pinches me is how and when did we lose our primal intelligence! The flora never forgot it's essence of life in being rooted. The fauna too sticks to it's intensely active life. Both obeying laws of Nature sacredly. On the other hand, what did Homo sapiens do? In pursuit of civilization, we severed our bond with primordial wisdom inherent in each of our constituting cells. How could we ignore such basic information downloaded in our inner building blocks? Are we really the most intelligent species around? Over the ages, we developed our understanding millionfold but lost the basic alphabets of this knowledge. The aboriginal manual of "how to live" life seems to be abandoned. The only survival trick mentioned by Nature in this manual is being agile or mobile. How many of us still stick to this ancient instruction? Not many, I guess, including me!

This shift in our lifestyle has marred us with many disorders that have eclipsed the quality of our existence. Hormonal imbalance leading to Diabetes, Hypo/Hyper Thyroidism, PCOS/PCOD, Inflammation, Cancer (yes it's not just genetic), Arthritis, early Osteoporosis etc. are a few to name here. I am not a subject expert on these but it's commonsense to understand what ails us and what should be done to set it right. Most of the medical issues amongst people can be addressed by embracing our inherent manual and shunning our sitting lifestyle.

When our souls have not forgotten to keep moving from one body to another, why should we forget to keep our bodies bustling? In a way we all are gypsies. As soul is a hopper, so are we. Let's pledge to be a gypsy once again. A gypsy in our grounded homes, always walking, rolling, running and rustling around. Let's ditch our vehicles somedays or park them further away from our work places to get a reason to walk a bit. Let's clean our homes ourselves intermittently or plant a garden and sow seeds to help them grow roots while being rootless (moving) ourselves. Let's stroll through our evenings or weekends to meet Nature in the woods or mountains or a sea/river side. Let's tour our own colony and surroundings exchanging pleasant smiles with our neighbours. Let's play and run with our kids. Let's remember we have LEGS not roots. Let's live a rootless, joyous, healthy, happy, gypsy life.

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