English 11 Block A

Response to "A Plea for the Physical" by Kate Braid.
Question: Are you more at home hiking in the woods or riding on the subway? Taking the stairs or the escalator? Having a sweaty workout or watching a hockey game on TV? etc etc Give reasons why you prefer either the physical or the sedentary.

Honestly I would definitely prefer the sedentary as I am, as most humans are, innately lazy and cursed by the sin of sloth. Being sedentary benefits me because it allows me to keep up with the latest information through the internet, contact people from far away through the telephone and also have fun with games that help me relax after a tough day. A sedentary lifestyle is convenient, relaxed and personal to me. However, I do realize that leading this kind of lifestyle does bring risks- heart attacks, cancer (from all the junk food that I don't eat) and plain old flab is what comes with the package. That is why I wish to lead a balanced lifestyle. Physical exercise would be yang, the positive powers, and sedentary the yin energy. Together they create a balanced and better lifestyle as being extreme on one side would upset this delicate position. Too much exercise and my mind would be blank from the lack of information I would be receiving. Too much sitting-in-front-of-your-computer-and-doing-nothing would mean that I am at risk of potential diseases and problems in many parts of my body. Thus by combining the two and finding a balance between them is the best possible choice for me. I would take in both the benefits that physical exercise brings as well as the satisfaction of learning from staying at home.

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