A Trip Back to Freshman Year

During my freshman year here at MTSU, I took Intro to Philosophy with our professor Phil Oliver, where I learned to embrace the inner peripatetic, and I enjoyed the class enough that I held onto the books we read that semester including one titled The Joys of Walking. 
With that introduction, I invite you to head the words of George Macaulay Trevelyan while we deal with all of the craziness of our modern times and perhaps convince you to take a little walk around your yard.

"I have two doctors, my left leg and my right. When mind and body are out of gear (and those twin parts of me live at such close quarters that the one always catches melancholy from the other) I know that I shall have only to call in my doctors and I shall be well again.

Mr. Arnold Bennett has written a religious tract called The Human Machine. Philosophers and clergymen are always discussing why we should be good - as if anyone doubted that he ought to be. But Mr. Bennett has tackled the real problem of ethics and religion - how we can make ourselves be good. We all of us know that we ought to be cheerful to ourselves and kind to others, but cheerfulness is often, and kindness sometimes, as unattainable as sleep in a white night. That combination of mind and body which I call my soul is often so choked up with bad thoughts or useless worries, that

'Books and my food, and summer rain,

Knock on my sullen heart in vain.'

It is then that I call in my two doctors to carry me off for the day. "