You Got to Move It, Move It

Why we are not meant to be sedentary beings

- Smt Sujatha Rao

The Context

If there is one word that I would associate with inspiration for almost everything in life, it would be the word 'Move'.

Though there are quite a few things about evolution that are shrouded in controversy, the one thing that almost every paleoanthropologist agrees upon is regarding the fact that the early hunter-gatherers moved a lot in order to survive, to feed themselves, to find better habitats to live, and to nest in safer places. They habitually covered around 10-20 KMs per day. So it is safe to deduce that our brains evolved to become super intelligent, as we were constantly on the move.

Language is found to be an imperfect medium for communication, often falling short in its ability to capture the baffled sense, or the unbridled awe, or the unfathomable depths of sorrow that we experience in life from time to time. However, we have tried to capture the multifaceted luminescence of the word 'move' in various ways, even though it might still fall short in conveying its myriad contextual meanings, a few of which are highlighted below: