The Stair People

By Lauren Belcher
Weekly Blog Post
Word Count: 291

This year I decided not to have a New Year's resolution. I never keep them anyways; seemed kind of pointless.

Instead, I decided to make a more manageable resolution: a Spring Semester resolution. My Spring Semester resolution is to not use the elevator if the building is five floors or smaller. This includes every building on campus and several others that I frequent.

It was the perfect resolution for me, just hard enough to remind myself that I'm doing it, while not so hard that I would never keep it up. I am an avid elevator user. To me, using the stairs meant exercising and I don't want anything to do with that.

But it's been a little over a month now and I've made a strange discovery. Here I am, struggling to get up the stairs, making a conscience decision to do so, while all around me there are other people doing it too. The Stair People.


How could this be? Why would anyone subject themselves to such torture without a Spring Semester resolution?

Could it be that they do this all year round? Impossible!

But it's true, these people don't think twice about taking the stairs. They do it everywhere they go! To an elevator junkie, like myself, they look like masochists.

Maybe my decision was not so farfetched. Maybe this is something I should have been doing all along and should continue well past April. It's good for me. And it saves the planet a little too, something I'm always a fan of. Perhaps, one day, I will look at the people filing onto the elevator, as long as they are not disabled, and think that they look strange.

Until then, I frolick with The Stair People.

Photo from: Linda Treash