srih4ri/ Apr 15th, 2016

## Apr 15th, 2016
Speed.
With a cast on my right foot, walking is no longer natural for me. It takes effort to make sure I don’t exert pressure on the cast when lifting my left leg up - my walker helps me do this. The walker also makes me look like a person with some serious foot injury.
I now count the number of footsteps I need to take before I walk for getting food or water. After the first day with cast on, I realized how much I walked inside my room on a normal day. Walking was easy, and it always was fruitful - I could walk up to the kitchen and get some food, all I needed was to walk. The situation has changed now, I cannot walk for every single thing. I now plan my walks to make it a single walk to fetch everything I need or might need.
I like to believe my right foot is inside a space suit and every walk to the kitchen is a spacewalk that costs me millions. So while I go grab something to eat from the kitchen, I make it a point to bring back water. When I go fetch a cigarette, I make sure I pickup the nearest lighter before I walk out to the balcony.
You don’t have to plan things until the day when cost to correct the course is less than the cost to plan. It’s just two steps extra to pick up that lighter, why spend your cognitive ability planning the path with least footsteps to pick it up - until the day the two steps are harder to take than the two seconds of planning.
	Speed.
	With a cast on my right foot, walking is no longer natural for me. It takes effort to make sure I don’t exert pressure on the cast when lifting my left leg up - my walker helps me do this. The walker also makes me look like a person with some serious foot injury.
	I now count the number of footsteps I need to take before I walk for getting food or water. After the first day with cast on, I realized how much I walked inside my room on a normal day. Walking was easy, and it always was fruitful - I could walk up to the kitchen and get some food, all I needed was to walk. The situation has changed now, I cannot walk for every single thing. I now plan my walks to make it a single walk to fetch everything I need or might need.
	I like to believe my right foot is inside a space suit and every walk to the kitchen is a spacewalk that costs me millions. So while I go grab something to eat from the kitchen, I make it a point to bring back water. When I go fetch a cigarette, I make sure I pickup the nearest lighter before I walk out to the balcony.
	You don’t have to plan things until the day when cost to correct the course is less than the cost to plan. It’s just two steps extra to pick up that lighter, why spend your cognitive ability planning the path with least footsteps to pick it up - until the day the two steps are harder to take than the two seconds of planning.