I was trying to plan out a trip this week which involves going to an area where public transportation is virtually non-existent. Therefore, it’s either take a car or go with the crazy expensive route of a taxi. I usually prefer to take the public transportation as for my needs it saves me a lot of money. I was then researching if I could actually walk at any portion of the travel. As it turns out, I could but it would take about an hour walk.
Funny enough, I don’t consider that too bad. I know a lot of people would think even twenty minutes is out of the question. That then reminded me of a conversation I had the other week where I was having a discussion about health and why I don’t seem to get tired as fast as my peers when it comes to doing rigorous exercise routines. I don’t go to a gym every day as an example. As usual, the partial conclusion was that I usually walked so much that it technically counts as a lot of exercising. Because of that too, I save a lot of money from having to get things like a gym membership as I pretty much made things like these part of my lifestyle.
For me, I developed this habit as a teenager solely on the notion of wanting to save money as opposed to a health reason. An hour round trip of walking to and from work seemed the most sensible for me at the time financially. It kind of works out too in some ways. Example, you may think that is a huge time waster to be walking all the time, but then many times people invest a lot of time in say a gym to make up the slack.
Choice of lifestyle I suppose. Always better to make it a lifestyle habit as opposed to weekly chore though I think. Maybe saving money is more of a motivator for people as usually health reasons alone aren’t good enough for many.