In the essay “Walking and the Suburbanized Psyche” by Rebecca Solnit, she believes walking was so valuable in the past because “walking was a sort of sacrament and a routine recreation”. People would walk frequently and voluntarily for their own pleasure like by making a date for a walk. Solnit narrates how “urban innovations such as sidewalks and sewers were improving cities” however it had “not yet menaced by twentieth-century speedups”. Solnit calls this period the, “golden age of walking” that initiated in the eighteenth century and she fears that it has “expired some decades ago”, yet its significance is the “creation of places to walk and its valuation of recreational walking”. Unfortunately, the development of suburbanization which
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The effect of this is that individuals’ profound relationship with the body is being lost because they have the “mental radious of how far they are willingly to go on foot”. Many individuals think that by driving his car or taking an uber can get him to arrive rapidly but sometimes he overestimates the distance, A person may think that walking to a place can be far due to the fact that he has not tried it but in most cases, he then realizes how close it really is. For example, I live in a suburban area where most people get to places by car and you’ll see very few people walking around the streets. Most people that walk around are usually people who don’t have cars and for that reason are obligated to walk. I recall a few years ago, one day I wanted to get my eyebrows done in a shopping plaza that is located near by where I live but I wanted my dad to drive me to the place because I thought it was too far to walk to. Since, my dad was busy working and no one was able to take me I decided to just walk. Surprisingly the distance was not as far as I thought it would be but I had discovered it was a reasonable 15 minute walk. Ever since that day I don’t rely on my dad or anyone to drive me to the shopping plaza anymore but now I walk the 5 minute drive. Most places a person drives now is usually distances that can be walk in less than 15 minutes but he prefers to …show more content…
Imagination allows an individual to experience nature and explore places of the world in a different way compared to sitting in a car or traveling in an airplane. From my personal experience I can help support Solnit’s opinion and say that it’s accurate. I remember when I was fifteen years, my family and I drove to San Francisco for 8 hours. During the car ride I recall myself being bored and falling asleep most of the road trip. When it came to my dad driving across the Golden Gate Bridge I was excited to finally see it. However when my dad decided to park nearby and told us to get off the car so we could walk across the bridge it was such a memorable moment for me. If I was excited before I was now amazed and astonished by this bridge. Walking across the bridge gave me the chance to mediate so many ideas like how my feet were walking in a huge bridge that was practically stranded in the middle of the ocean. The feel of breeze was even refreshing and calm compared to my city. I noticed even the smallest things like for example, the noise of the waves under the bridge. My walk across the bridge was more significant to me than passing by car because I was able to expand my mindset of how there’s so much more in this
The effect of this is that individuals’ profound relationship with the body is being lost because they have the “mental radious of how far they are willingly to go on foot”. Many individuals think that by driving his car or taking an uber can get him to arrive rapidly but sometimes he overestimates the distance, A person may think that walking to a place can be far due to the fact that he has not tried it but in most cases, he then realizes how close it really is. For example, I live in a suburban area where most people get to places by car and you’ll see very few people walking around the streets. Most people that walk around are usually people who don’t have cars and for that reason are obligated to walk. I recall a few years ago, one day I wanted to get my eyebrows done in a shopping plaza that is located near by where I live but I wanted my dad to drive me to the place because I thought it was too far to walk to. Since, my dad was busy working and no one was able to take me I decided to just walk. Surprisingly the distance was not as far as I thought it would be but I had discovered it was a reasonable 15 minute walk. Ever since that day I don’t rely on my dad or anyone to drive me to the shopping plaza anymore but now I walk the 5 minute drive. Most places a person drives now is usually distances that can be walk in less than 15 minutes but he prefers to …show more content…
Imagination allows an individual to experience nature and explore places of the world in a different way compared to sitting in a car or traveling in an airplane. From my personal experience I can help support Solnit’s opinion and say that it’s accurate. I remember when I was fifteen years, my family and I drove to San Francisco for 8 hours. During the car ride I recall myself being bored and falling asleep most of the road trip. When it came to my dad driving across the Golden Gate Bridge I was excited to finally see it. However when my dad decided to park nearby and told us to get off the car so we could walk across the bridge it was such a memorable moment for me. If I was excited before I was now amazed and astonished by this bridge. Walking across the bridge gave me the chance to mediate so many ideas like how my feet were walking in a huge bridge that was practically stranded in the middle of the ocean. The feel of breeze was even refreshing and calm compared to my city. I noticed even the smallest things like for example, the noise of the waves under the bridge. My walk across the bridge was more significant to me than passing by car because I was able to expand my mindset of how there’s so much more in this