Good morning! While I'm never one to let the weather dictate my mood, it's hard not to appreciate a sunny day like this - even in the Winter. The sky looks amazing, particularly when you contrast it with the heavy snow sitting on a pine tree's branches. The air is clean...a bunch of little things, but they're the kinds of things that I always take a moment to notice. I wish I could say I had something exciting to write about this morning, but I don't.
I will say that I'm excited about this day as it unfolds and I'm about to eat a late breakfast, enjoy the rest of my coffee and hit the gym - hopefully avoiding the strange older dude who always wants to talk, interrupts my workouts and kinda creeps me out. I don't want to be rude to the guy, but I really hate interruptions when I'm working out, and I go to pretty fair lengths not to interrupt anyone else. My workouts are my time and I don't see anything social about being at the gym. I put my earphones in and the music plays from the time I walk out of the locker room and keeps playing until I return after my workout is done.
My thoughts are based on how my workout is going on any given day - if it's bad, I want to talk myself through it, if it's good, then I want to keep that momentum going. I'm not in competition with anyone - I'm just trying to be the best version of me that I can. Being middle age, the whole getting older trip...that's something I want to fight off the effects of. I still feel youthful enough to want to do things and even on my worst days, the fact of the matter is that I always feel better leaving the gym. I don't want to let any negativity seep into my time at the gym, even in joking around - and this, dear readers, is why I always dread running into this older dude. Don't get me wrong - I respect the people I see on a regular basis at the gym. They're doing the same thing I'm there to do for the most part, which is to take better care of themselves. That's not always so easy, and this is the time of the year where the gym is still thinning out from the people who make New Year's resolutions to start exercising. Mad props to anyone who shows up and does something for themselves, seriously.
I don't pay any attention to what others are doing in their workouts and I see people at various stages of exercise - people who look like they're just beginning, to those who are into a regular routine. Whenever I think about it, I tell myself that it's not always easy, particularly in later years. I give everyone trying a lot of credit. One of the people I also give credit to is myself, because although I still find it rather surprising at nearly two years into this gym thing, I'm working out more than I did when I was in high school and on the swim team! I guess it's easier now, but it always feels like it could stop at any moment - and I'm not about to let that happen. So good for the strange old dude - he told me he's 69 years old. I hope I'm still getting as much exercise when I'm that age, but meanwhile, I'm thinking about having the phrase, I am not here to TALK, printed on my workout shirts.
I feel great today and I'm looking forward to everything - even going to work later on. What's not to like - great sunny day, my gym is close, my coffee tasted great and the negative force at work simply doesn't exist there now - and everyone is looking forward to moving on in a much more positive environment now. All good things on this awesome sunny day - in Winter. Peace!
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