A walk in the park..

    A walk in the park. Sometimes it's all we have to escape from reality. I guess every city in this world has a park. Big or small, green or not there must be a central park in every city. Why? I don't know why. What I do know is that a walk in the park is the best way to find what things are really worthy finding in life. Why don't you take a stroll with me.












What is possible to meet while walking in a park?

1) Nature. Parks are usually full of trees and flowers and plants in general. A park can't be called a park without some kind of flora in it. There are parks in the world entirely covered by beautiful and rare plants. And others with just a small part of them. But surely there is nature in every park.

2) Water. Maybe it does not happen in every park but water is an element that beautifies central parks. Fountains,lakes,ponds,rivers or any other kind of water is generously located in many if not all parks.

3) Animals. From squirrels to leased dogs taken out for a walk by their "bosses", parks are alive due to the presence of animals. Bugs, rodents,duck, birds, dogs, cats, domestic or not animals are not an exception in parks along the world.

4) Workers. It's not unusual to find people working in a park. The working class is always working hard. Either they are the caretakers of the park or repairmen the hard working class is not missing from parks.

4) Couples. The parks are an exceptional place for dates. Be it a romantic stroll by the lake or a passionate kiss on a bench, parks are overwhelmed by couples and love. A place where pure love does thrive indeed.

5) Senile people. The third age is a dominant resident of parks. Old people find parks a great place to hang out. There they can find their friends and chat, walk without being rushed or pussed around. It is the place where the can find the tranquility they seek.

6) Bookworms. There you can find students studying lying on the grass or simple readers reading their favorite books in the comfort and the serenity of a bench. Or people reading today's news with their newspapers. Tomorrow's scientists or yesterday's news all meet in the park every day.

7) Children. You will see children playing everywhere in a park. Children are life, the future, the young spirit which moves endlessly. And a park is just the place for that spirit to thrive, to create fantasy worlds or just simply have fun.

8) Artists. Street bands, musicians, painters,dancers. They all benefit in inspiration from a walk or a short stay in the park. For some the park is their stage, and the residents of it are theirs loyal fans. Even in the cases where the fans will have forgotten them, those artists have performed their initial task of forming their inner world out in the open.

9) Amateur athletes. It's most common for some people to start their day training in the local park. Jogging is a great way to begin a healthy day. And we surely see many of this persons in their track suits and earbuds running around in the area of the park. A healthy mind needs to inhabit a healthy body.

10) Monuments. Statues,arcs, landmarks. They all have a special place in parks. Because they are all memories from the past. And parks are places where memories are supposed to be remembered, re-lived and stay intact along the course of time.










What you won't find in a park


1) Imperialistic capitalism. There is no chance at all to see a luxurious "Mercedes" strolling around a park. Nor a wealthy man in his tux cutting through the pathways of park. Wealthy men don't even drive, they are being driven. Let aside in a park. In general, people with a lot of money don't go to parks. They don't need them, even sometimes don't know that parks exist. 


2) Sloth. There is not even a single dull moment in a park. People spending time there are relaxing but not overdoing it. There is no TV or computers screens. And strangely in parks even nowadays, the use of cell phones it surprisingly limited. Spending time in a park is quality time and can't by no means be compared with the "lost" hours spend in front of flickering screens back home.


3) Lust. Parks are a safe haven for love. But lust is being kept away from them. Where nowadays people express their "sexuality" almost in every place they can find, parks are still relatively pure from any form of "sexual" activities. 


4) Anger. No one gets mad, no one gets angry, no ones shouts loud inside a park. Serenity and tranquility are words made for the vicinity of parks, and anger has no place at all in there. 


5) Greed. Being a place where money are only useful to buy a refreshment, parks are also a place where greed and greedy people are afraid to come close to a park. And even when they do, they silently walk buy cause they are really trespassers. After all, no company ever settled to an expensive agreement inside a park. That's why hotels and expensive restaurants are for. 


8) Celebrities. Rock stars, Tv idols and all the famous kind of people never spend time in a park. They spend time by the pool of the hotel or their expensive mansions but never in a park. So do their snob ways of living and judging the others. In any given park, everybody is equal and everybody is treated equally.

    Having read all those things about the "residents" of a park I wonder. If we could use our imagination for a while, isn't life in a park the ideal way of leading a life in the real world? Just add all the values that are described above and put them in your life. Wouldn't that be a very relaxing, beautiful and interesting life? Furthermore take away from your personal life the "bad" things that thankfully don't dwell in a park as described above. Wouldn't that make our lives even more joyful? To me a park is a virtual place where all the good values you can find in life are living altogether. Watching a park in motion is how I would like to see my life in motion.