Walking for hunger
It was a day of experience, the first time I joined this kind of activity in US. what’s the feeling? I’m not sure. It’s said there were 43000 people walking today, helped raise $3.3 million for hungry families in Massachusetts! So every person raised $76.7 in average, although I didn’t get 1 dollar donation since I am too lazy to inform my friends to support me. Benevolence behavior seems to exist in every country and ethic group, it might be the basic instinct of human being as well as some other group animals, to give and to gain making the balance for the harmonious easy living….
We got up at 7 in the morning, and had a heavy breakfast, then took the metro to Park Street, where was the starting point. It was like a big market around Boston Common, balloons, posters, flags, tents, cheering groups filled up the space and time. It was not difficult to find the HMS-CSSA group at the monument hill, and we put on the tag, started the walking for hunger. It was cloudy with sunshine broke out sometimes, the main streets were full of people, flowing through all the way to the Mega. We enjoyed the morning sunshine and breeze, green leaves and new sprouts of flowers; stop to take pictures sometimes….giggles and hails, laughs and cries all among the flow….
The scenery is not bad in the spring, especially along the Charles river, it’s so lovely a day that I cannot feel any pain with this maneuver; my feet can stand well even after 15 miles of walking; we stop moments to get the signature and take water supply every 2-4 miles, At last we turned away at JFK street to another art festival, drinking coffee and ate chowder, watched some strange show….
Now I feel tired of the muscles on my leg and feet, but still confusing about the feelings of the experience; we didn’t socialize with others, and didn’t know why we join the walking, might only for fun and exercise, am I too selfish to show any enthusiasms?
