Walk in the park*

'A walk in the park' is a synonym for the east because the park knows how to walk. It does it for us. A good park anticipates our desire. Anticipated desire is the key to leisure. People have been paid and good money has been spent on figuring out what we are going to want to do. They care so that we don't have to. The good hotel, the theme park, the penny arcade, the pub, the cinema -- all of them relieve our consciousness of the burden of worrying about what to do next. Think of those early difficult days when a new thing - a computer or mobile phone, a guitar or a car, or a relationship in which you now feel comfortable. Learning the right moves, what they mean, how to, when to, what not to, where to, repeating and rehearsing, experimenting and getting it wrong: 'poise, and grace, and assurance were are not qualities inbred in me, but were things to be acquired, painfully perhaps, and slowly, costing me many bitter moments.' We want to rush past our bitter moments, to a place of facility and ease, we want to be old at this new thing, but rushing won't do it. Only time and repetition bring ease. Then it's second nature, a walk in the park.