A Wise Trainer

A Wise Trainer

“Is it O.K. if one exercises regularly every morning to keep one fit and healthy?” asked a member to his trainer at the Monas Square Park.

“Certainly not.” he said. “Suppose one exercises regularly and in the right, required manner, even using the newest, best equipment, when one doesn’t eat regularly and haven’t got sufficient nutrition, or eat too much fat, or suffer from lack of sleep,… the benefits would be wasted. We have to observe all our daily activities with care if we want the health benefits of regular exercise. If we neglect one or some of them, our efforts would be in vain.

“Thank you,” I said in my heart. What a wise man. In fact he told this invaluable advise to his member. I didn’t know them, yet I indirectly profited from this conversation, how to keep one, myself, fit and healthy.

So many fine, invaluable thoughts, do we hear, as “pearls”, we did not expect we could pick them up so easily without any effort, any payment, instead of having to find them on display in a bookstore and pay a high price for the book.

Upik asked, “do you mean people would be more confident after reading it in a big book, very difficult to understand, rather than by having them just as clear and easy by listening to someone talking?”

I picked it up just by “reading” all what affect, happen around me, us. Not just by reading a lot of books. They are not spoken about at school, at the university or seminar. Sure, I don’t earn money by having such an occupation, yet it’s worth a lot more than mere money, or food. They’re my riches.

A very engaging pastime, except, when you have a hobby like this, people would think that you are lazy, loafing, idle, poor, while the reverse, opposite is true, ha-ha, ha, as Pak Arif told me this.

From Suara Karya, 31 Oktober 1997

January 2011