Welcome
The best time to start walking is between nine and 12 months old. The second best time is today. It’s not like being a Formula 1 driver or a musical prodigy, where you really needed to have started when your peers were busy watching Peppa Pig. You can go all the way to the top in walking – enjoy all the perks and pleasures and privileges – no matter when you start. Because winning at walking isn’t about putting rivals behind you and working toward ever higher, ever lonelier plains of existence, and targets that are only ever stepping stones. It’s about discovering you were born in the greatest vehicle ever created, with the finest instruments at your disposal – and turning them on.
Walking is simply the best way to dig through all the layers of distraction, doubt and dissatisfaction that bounce around our screens and our minds, and find what life’s about at its core. Discovering that you’re an incredibly sophisticated, sensitive, playful, self-healing, wonder-conceiving, skilful, amusing, curious thing – the latest model in a product line honed over hundreds of thousands of years. And that life – teeming with interest and possibility and delight; infinite detail, sublimity and unbelievably delicious cakes and pints and shared moments – is better with you right in the middle of it, and more deserving of attention than any number of ‘What ifs’ and ‘One-dayI’ll-s’. Enjoy the issue – and walk this way to a brighter, happier, healthier year, and you.