Simple gestures: dear old stairs

Not mentioned in Sports for dummies, I’ll add a simple detail in my daily revolutions, even though my behavior in the matter is far from perfect at the time and it’s not directly linked to sports considerations either: stairs. Our ancestors created these devices eons ago: lacking electricity, they needed an inventive tool to avoid expanding purely horizontally. Made of steps, these wonders allow their users to reach an upper or lower point of the land – or building.
Nowadays, we no longer need to use these archaic things to go up or down. But still. I admit I do love stairs, and try to prove it every time I get a chance. They’re never late, they don’t fall out of service in a second (they don’t fall in a second either), they’re not crowded, they’re not noisy, they hardly use any energy… and they shape your muscles. Needless to say they’re also perfect for every kind of claustrophobe.
Modern prejudice tends to say the opposite, but on a daily basis, stairs do represent a kind of freedom. Using stairs, you keep your own rhythm, your own space, your own responsibility. Quite a revolution! Only problem: like hand writing, we don’t really know how this works anymore. So here’s a trick: start by using them to go down… And when I manage taking them systematically to go up, I’ll make sure to let you know!