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Dinner with friends, shortly after graduation: 6/11/11.
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Endure. Adapt. Thrive.
How many times have we heard, "You are not a special snowflake." I used to embrace that saying. Funny: we can agree with a worldview without practicing it. I somehow got to thinking that life is about my actions, about my failures, about my imperfections, about my experiences, about my pain, about my happiness, about me, me, & me. It's not. Life is bigger than we are. And now I realize that acknowledging our place in this world requires a certain courage.
I want to accept ...
How many times have we heard, "You are not a special snowflake." I used to embrace that saying. Funny: we can agree with a worldview without practicing it. I somehow got to thinking that life is about my actions, about my failures, about my imperfections, about my experiences, about my pain, about my happiness, about me, me, & me. It's not. Life is bigger than we are. And now I realize that acknowledging our place in this world requires a certain courage.
I want to accept life's limitations with grace while periodically pushing against those limitations. Call it a paradox. Instead of running away from the unpleasant, I need to step up, face the facts, and create some good around me. I know that I must be strong to be happy. Strong for me, strong for my family, and strong for a world that needs more strength.
"Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears; and sometime voices
That, if I then had waked after long sleep,
Will make me sleep again; and then in dreaming,
The clouds methought would open, and show riches
Ready to drop upon me, that when I waked
I cried to dream again."
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Member Since: 12/5/2009
SparkPoints: 7,445
Fitness Minutes: 11,441
My Goals:
Strength.
1. Knock my 5k time below 20 minutes by mid-winter (2/13/12).
2. Complete a half-marathon by mid-winter.
3. Begin minimalist running this fall. [X]
4. More HIIT sessions[x].
5. Get back to the gym for more comprehensive lifting.
My Program:
As of 10/2/2011, I'm cycling and skating a lot while my foot heals from tendonitis. I try to stretch after each cardio session. Afterwards, I do a circuit lifiting session that kicks my ass. I'll probably restart my jogging program in a couple weeks.
In terms of diet...Oh, healthy diet, you elusive beast. It's either too many calories or too much salt or too little X or not enough Y or...
I need to eat more vegetables and less salt. I'm also trying to get my carbs down a bit. I've been learning to cook way more stuff than before, which should help me cater my diet and save some cash money.
Overall, general awareness and small steps toward healthy living.
Personal Information:
27-year-old male in Chicago, recently graduated from law school.
The tragic story: I had my weight down to the lower 160s along with good cardiovascular endurance and moderate muscular strength. As so often happens, I lost most of the above. And, as we so often do, I now strive to reclaim past accomplishments.
And I will.
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“If there is dissatisfaction with the status quo, good. If there is ferment, so much the better. If there is restlessness, I am pleased. Then let there be ideas, and hard thought, and hard work. If man feels small, let man make himself bigger.”
-Hubert H. Humphrey
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