bertrand russell's guide to happiness

you never regret going for a walk…

there’s this gem from bertrand russell’s, portraits from memory, that i ran across. walking as a form of therapy and personal care; solo or with company is wildly undervalued today.

This is a humble conclusion, but I cannot make myself disbelieve it. Unhappy businessmen, I am convinced, would increase their happiness more by walking six miles every day than by any conceivable change of philosophy. This, incidentally, was the opinion of Jefferson, who on this ground deplored the horse. Language would have failed him if he could have foreseen the motor car.

i suspect we’ll never really appreciate how we lost when we let cars rule our lives and dictate how we interact with the world. as a society we royally fucked that development up.