All in Health
How to Fitness Pt. 2 (The Worst Lies)
For the umteenth time, I witnessed my father partake in a night of, let’s call it “reckless” eating, and for the umteenth time, I attempted an intervention:
“At any point last night, during your inhalation of four slices of pizza, three-quarters of a pint of raspberry-crumb-cheesecake gelato and a Tito’s martini, did your long-term health ever cross your mind?”
“You know, that’s a good question.” He responded. “Probably not.”
Probably not.
How to Fitness Pt. 1
Yet, being healthy is not just something you start doing because you suddenly have loads of free time. It can certainly start that way, but as anyone who has had their motivation to get fit this quarantine sapped by an infatuation with Joe Exotic can attest, hoping and doing are not one in the same.
The Art of Waking Up
You may not be suffering from coronavirus, but you are suffering from a major case of Head Up Your Ass(HUA). Those with HUA have many symptoms, such as disregarding global warming, littering, browsing Instagram in social settings rather than putting in the effort to converse like a human, etc. Those with the worst cases downplay the severity of a real, global emergency in an effort to accrue likes on social media––and then wonder why people hate millennials.
Clean Your Room
Life is hard enough without the bullsh**. Status and money are those forces in your nightly dreams that prevent you from turning left, when you are desperately trying to turn right. And, what happens in that dream when you turn left despite your desire and intuition? That’s right, you fall into the abyss––always.
What I've Learned From Not Eating
Be honest with yourself: who wears the pants in your relationship with food? Overly anticipating meals makes us no better than predatory animals by robbing us of the two things that make us uniquely human: our individuality and our minds. Not eating for five days displayed that my dependence on food had led to an involuntary compartmentalization of my time—one that was driving me to act with the crowd while preventing me from reaching my full potential. If you wish to control your own destiny, you can begin by adopting the most important word in the English language—no. If you are content being like everyone else—just continue saying yes.
