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sanpaku_backupAnd the answer is... Clean Living? People? That's what happens when you ask your Greek chorus for advice, I suppose.
I'm actually not in terrible shape as it is; the cholesterol is down, I eat decently, and as long as the weather is good, I really enjoy walking. So although I could stand to lose ten pounds, I'm not yet terribly motivated by health or appearance issues. Not enough, at least, to overcome terror at the sheer blinkering mindlessness of jumping up and down while being screamed at for forty minutes. I salute you for doing it, but the mind rebels.
Don't get me wrong. Just because the rest of the adult world seems capable of exercising isn't a reason to automatically dismiss it.
As for family time, have I mentioned recently that I am at home in the company of my loved ones every second of every day?
But I take the larger point. There aren't enough swords around to cut all the Gordian knots in my life. Escape and change are two sides of the same coin. Instead, one has to work with the cards one's dealt. I gotcha. Oh believe me, I do.
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This cheered me up. I think I recognize someone like this.
"Miss Lonelyhearts stopped listening. His friends would go on telling these stories until they were too drunk to talk. They were aware of their childishness, but did not know how else to revenge themselves. At college, and perhaps for a year afterwards, they had believed in literature, had believed in Beauty and in personal expression as an absolute end. When they lost this belief, they lost everything. Money and fame meant nothing to them. They were not worldly men."
I'm actually not in terrible shape as it is; the cholesterol is down, I eat decently, and as long as the weather is good, I really enjoy walking. So although I could stand to lose ten pounds, I'm not yet terribly motivated by health or appearance issues. Not enough, at least, to overcome terror at the sheer blinkering mindlessness of jumping up and down while being screamed at for forty minutes. I salute you for doing it, but the mind rebels.
Don't get me wrong. Just because the rest of the adult world seems capable of exercising isn't a reason to automatically dismiss it.
As for family time, have I mentioned recently that I am at home in the company of my loved ones every second of every day?
But I take the larger point. There aren't enough swords around to cut all the Gordian knots in my life. Escape and change are two sides of the same coin. Instead, one has to work with the cards one's dealt. I gotcha. Oh believe me, I do.
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This cheered me up. I think I recognize someone like this.
"Miss Lonelyhearts stopped listening. His friends would go on telling these stories until they were too drunk to talk. They were aware of their childishness, but did not know how else to revenge themselves. At college, and perhaps for a year afterwards, they had believed in literature, had believed in Beauty and in personal expression as an absolute end. When they lost this belief, they lost everything. Money and fame meant nothing to them. They were not worldly men."
