Use it or lose it!

After a series of technical posts, here is a proverb that I had heard of before, but understood its significance only a few years back.
What happens when you don’t walk for a prolonged period of time? What happens when you stop moving your finger for a prolonged period of time? What happens when you stop learning something new over a period of time? What happens when you stop teaching for prolonged period of time? The answer to all these questions is just a simple one – ‘You just lose the skill to do it”!! Whether body or mind, once you stop doing something(for whatever reason) – it is very hard to re-train the body and mind to try doing it again!
Both the body and mind becomes rusty once we stop doing it. So, unless you are advised by doctors not to do something – it is good to keep going on!

Sheetal had undergone a nasty foot surgery that did not allow her to walk for almost a month. At the end of the month, when she tried to walk, she could not walk normally for obvious reasons. But even beyond a 3-4 months, when the doctors had given her the “medically fit” certificate, she was in no mood to walk a lot as the “not moving” rust had settled on her! When she finally mustered the courage to walk, she could not do the normal walks and was mentally exhausted. Finally, her father pointed out that since she had not used her walking ability, she was finding it hard to get back to complete normalcy! She had to use every ounce of her physical and mental strength along with a deep religious penance to get her walking back!
Don’t let this happen to you…continue doing what you are doing, if you love it!
Cheers!
This post is for alphabet ‘U’ of the #Blogchatter challenge. The previous post can be found here.