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REST, A MISNOMER

 


    It is a Sunday morning.  You are sitting in a easy chair with a news paper in one hand and a hot cup of coffee in another.  The tree lives are still.  No ripples in the nearby pond.  No traffic. And you think everything is at rest, quiet and still.  It is actually far from that.

     When you lay still, you heart is throbbing 72 times per second pumping 2000 gallons of blood per day  through 60000 miles long blood vessels.  Your lung inhales and exhales air continuously.  And there are so many biological processes are ON in your body.

    The liquid molecules in the hot coffee are at fast random motion.  The news paper you are holding is made up of hydrocarbon.  The electrons in these atoms are whirling around the nucleus and the protons are spinning. 

   Thousands of elementary particles called neutrino from cosmos are passing through your body at this instant.  For your information, neutrinos are tiniest and lightest particle existing in nature.  

    The water is seeping through the roots and trunks of the trees and the tree leaves are silently doing the duty 'photosynthesis'.  

     You, along with the chair , house and garden moving at 1000 km/hr due to the rotation of the earth.  You do not feel anything because the earth's motion is so smooth without any jerks.  

     We know the globe is moving around the sun.  And the entire solar system is going in circles around the center of milky way galaxy.  The whole galaxy is moving due to expansion of our universe.
   
     In our day-today life, rest means change of work.  For cinema theater employees, it is a work.  For us, it is an  entertainment and rest.

So the motion is the rule and not an exception.  Motion means life. So start moving to keep the body live and fit.
     

 
    

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