Take the big are-you-addicted-to-your-step-counter test

As of the time of writing (09:54 AM), I have already done more than four thousand, and I haven't counted the seventeen times I took the three stairs in our house.

The step counter is the new scale, we check the end balance every day and attach a happiness judgment to it. At least I do, and many of my friends do too. ‘May, I have corona, I’m seriously worried about my step balance,’ said a good friend of mine recently who was quarantined due to ‘c’.

Fifteen thousand would be the ideal number, but you really need to walk for three hours a day to achieve that. Something that is normally absolutely not given to us, but what can be called a tiny little advantage of this dreadful corona time. The question arises: does the step counter not take too much possession of us? Take the checklist.

1. You check your step balance after every walk (or even during the walk).

2. You send screenshots to fellow addicts of the number of steps.

3. You walk back to the dining table to put your phone in your pocket when you want to walk up the stairs. It does tick again.

4. When you are in a waiting room, you walk back and forth to make use of the lost minutes for the benefit of your step balance.

5. If you arrive too early for an appointment, you walk back and forth in the street. Sick, I know.

6. When you walk with a group, you consciously walk back and forth to boost your balance a bit.

Okay, if you answer these questions with ‘yes’, then you are part of the step counter addiction club. But on the other hand: this is a healthy addiction, so it might be a bit obsessive, but who cares, you seem to become happy and healthy from it.