I couldn't help notice this while returning from the gym today.
I always use my bike or car to go anywhere. I use elevator to reach my office in 6th floor. And to compensate for the sedentary life style I have go to gym and use treadmill and cross trainer!
In olden days people just walked to work, used all their muscles to do their work. So work was not about just earning the bread but a lifestyle in itself. They had so nice interwoven work and life that nobody really felt the need of work-life balance. Whereas we have compartmentalized everything - work, commute, work out etc. And we focus on efficiency and in each task separately and we want to optimize them to the maximum. Yet, they expended almost zero (external) fuel to maintain themselves. Now I waste twice the fuel (one set to reach to work comfortably and another to burn the fat accumulated due to this comfort!) ! And we say we are XYZ% productive than our ancestors!!!
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