The Angle Of Spine

"Another day, now that's some progress.", he muttered to himself.

After properly washing up, he crossed the ten meters wide river stream and started to walk towards the tree with the poisonous red fruits and the dozens of silver eyed green snakes, or what the Soma Villagers called them, 'Leaf Serpents'.

Although the trekking path from the western river stream to the poison fruit tree was much more than four hours long journey, June could somehow easily map out the uneven hilly terrain and retrace the exact path back to the poison fruit tree.

It took him almost less than half the time, to reach the tree from the waterfall, than yesterday when he had travelled from morning to the afternoon from tree to the river stream in search of the drinking water source.

This time he had reached the poisonous red fruit tree even before the noon came.

"It looks like my speed has somehow increased" June thought in his mind while looking at the Tree with poisonous red fruits hanging around twenty meters in front of him.

After noticing the tremendously lessened time in his journey June stopped before getting near the tree. Then he calmed his breathing and noticed that he was actually not too tired like he was before after trekking for hours.

He took a moment and started contemplating in his mind about his observations.

"My senses have improved, but not my muscles. In fact, except my five senses everything about my body is same as before but still there is this much difference in the results."

Actually, June's surprise was not wrong in any way.

When his senses had increased, the coordination between them also improved. When we look at it carefully, while walking on the uneven terrain of the hills, the speed of movement is directly dependent on the eye and body coordination, especially the motion of legs and the body can only move forward when the legs are in 'touch' with the ground.

Usually people ignore these little things, like how much of the area under their feet is in direct contact or in direct 'touch' with the ground. The reason for this ignorance is that they think that this is like a reflex action or their natural body language, so they do not think about it that much, but there is a lot more hidden information behind this simple everyday action.

The first thing that we, as humans, learn after birth is how to move our body, but why does it normally take anywhere between nine to eighteen months for an infant to learn how to walk, and why can't a human baby, just like the infants of other animals, start walking within a little time after they are born in this world?

The reason for that is actually very simple. It happens because the walking pattern of a human being is much more complex than any other living animal on the planet, so it takes much more time and energy for a human infant to learn simple walking, which can take almost an year and even more depending on the child. Which is much greater time than the infant of any other animal who can start using its legs in just a few moments after their birth.

Why would this simple process of walking for a human baby is much more complex than any other animal?

It is because of the basic angle of the spine in the body of the homo sapiens.

All the animals, including fishes, birds, snakes and even the insects have bodies which are designed in such a way that they will always move in the direction of their 'head'.

For all of them, the direction of their head will decide which way is forward and tail will decide which way is backward, that is why their head is always situated in front of their body and tail at the back.

But with a human being that is not the case.

The reason for that is that our head is situated on the top of our body and not in the front, whereas the tail, which was supposed to be situated at the back of the body is actually at the bottom, below our head, but the natural body of all the animals especially the multicellular organisms is designed to move in the direction of the head, which is upward in the case of a human being.

Unfortunately, we can not walk on the air because according to our body design and the location of head, body, and tail, we are actually designed with a natural tendency to go upward and not forward which confuses our basic mind and may be that is the reason every human being wants to reach the top.