One Man's Journey From Fat to Fit

Category Archive: Life Talk

  1. I Refuse To Be Normal

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    “Accept what peo­ple tell you at face value. Sur­round your­self with peo­ple who think like you. Don’t stand out. Stay close to home. Get a nor­mal job. Do things the way every­one else does, because there has to be a method to the mad­ness… Jump through hoops. Check off boxes… Wher­ever you go, make absolutely sure that you will be safe and com­fort­able… Work at a job you don’t like for the major­ity of your pro­fes­sional life… Put the blame on some­one else when things go wrong. Never take respon­si­bil­ity for any­thing. When you fail at some­thing, resolve to never try again.” — Chris Guille­beau “How To Be Unre­mark­ably Normal”

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    The life you want to live has no recipe. Fol­low­ing the recipe got you here in the first place:

    “Mix one high school diploma with an under­grad degree and a col­lege sweet­heart. With a whisk (or a whip) blend two cars, a poorly built house in a cul de sac, and fifty hours a week work­ing for a board that doesn’t give a shit about you. Repro­duce once. Then again. Place all ingre­di­ents in a rut, or a grave. One is a bit longer than the other. Bake thor­oughly until the result­ing life is set. Rigid. With no way out. Serve and enjoy.” — Gym Jones “Twitch­ing“

    The past year has been a whirl­wind of ups, downs, tri­als, and tribu­la­tions. Which isn’t uncom­mon, every­one has these kinds of feel­ings. Some­thing that has been hit­ting me over and over and over again is this feel­ing like I am on a the Mediod­cre Life Express hurl­ing down the tracks towards Regret­ful Life-ville. *Just as an aside, this is all on a per­sonal level. This doesn’t have to to do any­thing with my fam­ily. I never regret them. In fact, they are what inspire and encour­age me to do better.

    Life isn’t, and shouldn’t be, a straight one-way path. It’s a series of cross­roads for those who are brave enough to step out of line and take a risk. In order to lead a mean­ing­ful life, I need to engage in some­thing ful­fill­ing and here’s a heads-up, it’s not sit­ting in an office for 8 hours every­day and work­ing for the weekend.

    I’m not going to throw cau­tion to the wind and quit my job. I have mouths to feed and a fam­ily to sup­port, that’s just stu­pid. But I am going to start doing more of the things that I am pas­sion­ate about so that one day, when I’m old and gray, I can say that “I lived.”

    That’s all I really have to say for now. I sug­gest you read the arti­cle that I linked up there in the quote. Maybe you’ll feel inspired to take a risk.

     

  2. Sometimes, You Just Have to Complain

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    First of all, I just wanted to let the world know that I’m writ­ing this in my bed, on my phone. Tech­nol­ogy, FTW.

    Yeah, burnt out. That’s exactly how I’m feel­ing right about now. Work, the gym, keep­ing up on the healthy eat­ing thing, f***ing Face­book, all of that kind of stuff.

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  3. Goal Pyramid 2013

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    Ahh, new year 2013. A time for new begin­ning and fresh starts.

    Every once in a while I like to do what’s called a Goal Pyra­mid. I got the idea from a Philip Defranco vlog a few years ago and put my own spin on it or what­ever. Any­way, the point of it all is to help refo­cus and and ori­ent your­self to reach­ing per­sonal goals.

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  4. I’m Getting Old

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    Every­one is really, but I am really feel­ing old today. Sore shoul­ders, sore back, tired. Maybe I don’t feel old, but alive? I’m going to go with that.

    I’ve been liv­ing to the point of ach­i­ness, and I think I’ll chock that up as a pos­i­tive.

    I don’t mind the thought of get­ting old, but that could be because in all real­ity, I’m quite young. It’s always inter­est­ing to hear some­one say “I’ve worked here for 30 years” when I’ve not even been alive that long. That makes me real­ize that I have a lot of life left to live.

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