The Camel’s hump is an ugly lump
Which well you may see at the Zoo;
But uglier yet is the hump we get
From having too little to do.…The cure for this ill is not to sit still,
Or frowst with a book by the fire;
But to take a large hoe and a shovel also,
And dig till you gently perspire….– Rudyard Kipling, How the Camel Got His Hump.
Humph-harrumph! There’s no denying that there’s good sense in this advice: The cure for a hump, humph, or harrumph is movement – not sitting inside out of the weather, so to speak. To pick up your tools (whatever they may be) and do something useful that occurs to you as needing doing. Not to overstrain or weary yourself to exhaustion, but to take it steady until you’ve worked off the personal thundercloud that’s so rudely following you around, and then – and then, as the poet says,
Published in Group WritingAnd then you will find that the sun and the wind,
And the Djinn of the Garden too,
Have lifted the hump –
The horrible hump –
The hump that is black and blue!
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