Commuting once in a way is great

Other day, i had to drop in to my grandfather’s house. Its about 4 km away from my home. I had to take two buses to reach there as there are only few buses to reach there directly and that too comes at particular time. After visiting my grandfather, i had to go to another which was about 1 km away from there. I decided i take a bus, but i found out after 10 minutes that it was futile to wait here as none was coming. My mind swiftly gave me a idea that instead of wasting time here, i should take brisk walk towards the location. Reluctantly i started walking down slowly, soon i started enjoying it. There is no doubt that, commuting via bus or regular mode of transport makes your life easy and less tiring, but you just won’t get the pleasure of walking down the paths and seeing different things happening on the road. As i was walking, i saw how shopkeepers are busy selling things, customers bargaining hardly, schoolchildren were returning home in a jovial mood. As soon as i reached halfway, i started wondering how people used to have only one option before them to reach any location in earlier times. There was a time when horses was the only transporting option people had.Rich people solely relied on them to travel distances, but unfortunately for people who could not afford, had no option, but to walk to the destination they wanted to go. Not only short distances but also sometimes they used to cover other countries by walk. This shows how much people were strong not only by body, but also by heart at that time. By walking long distances, they were able to maintain good health and that’s also one of the reason why people lived longer than people living in current era.By refusing to walk and taking transport, we are somewhere harming our own health. Today our mindset is not even ready to walk 1 km. So according to me, in the conclusion, people should use their legs as transport, not vehicles. We can easily cover short distances, why do we need vehicles for that. Does it not amount to wastage of petrol and harming of environment. If not for the sake of our health, just for the sake of the environment, we should try to avoid vehicles as far as possible thus helping the whole society.