Do you exercise? How?

5/9/2014

“Yo baby I know your feet must be tired cause you've
been running through my mind ALL DAY! Come here girl!"
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air

It begins and ends with the mind… while this question
I believe delves more towards the physical aspect; I would
like to begin with the strongest aspect of myself which
is the mind. Meditation and yoga to be precise, the former
brings about great focus and while I am simply a beginner
of the latter with its physical format, it to lends strength
to the mind.

My mind can be a very peaceful place, I hear words such as
nirvana or enlightenment but it is in the darkness, the
silence, which the monsters are kept at bay. However I find
myself becoming such a beast, so I feel no need to scream,
or roar, I can always find something or someone to do the
screaming. Pretty girls run and angels fly but where to
inside my own head; let the boys have their spank banks this
gentleman houses beauties in a dungeon of the mind.

Strange that such a thought sets the mind free

“I don't think that a person should run unless he's
being chased.” The Faculty

Now you can take one look at me and tell how much of my high
school career went and so it was I took up running, though
I’m more of a walker most days. I found the stories of Shaka
Zulu quite fascinating, especially his training of the
new Zulu army so I have hiked here or there without shoes
just for the feel of the ground.

Given the fact I also have a Chihuahua, one must be fairly
quick to keep up; all these things and more help to improve
stamina, a continual pursuit for a moment in my life that
may never come to pass. I’ve never been one for camping
but I have been hiking by myself quite few times and a rather
depressing story, when I was young I went for a walk but in
truth had no place to go and at the end my father beat my ass
for running away when again I had no place to go so I passed
by the house quite a few times.

“Uh, sleep night. I mean, obviously, good night. I started
to say sleep tight, then I changed my mind in the middle.
I swear to God, I’m smart.” The Big Bang Theory -
The Plimpton Stimulation

As far as going to gyms, I have one concern and one excuse,
the concern of course being my aversion to people; while
I normally have no body issues given the fact I am who I am,
it is only the preconceived notions e.g. overweight people
go to lose weight, skinny people go to gain muscle. My excuse
is my job but not in the way you might think, for the most part
I am a Freight Associate or simply put a truck unloader,
so when I’m lifting microwaves, coffee makers, piles
of books and the like for a few hours, somehow going to the
gym seems asinine.

I do believe in keeping healthy… but I would never be one
to go vegetarian or vegan, though I have nothing against
people who prescribe to such theories. Actually seeing
as I abhor hunting animals, at least in the slightest possibility
given the gun enthusiast the animals being hunted have
a chance and yet I see nothing wrong with chicken, pork,
beef, shrimp etc. When science creates a meat and seafood
substitute, I’ll be waiting.

Mind over matter and so I look back to the mind as in the pursuit
of knowledge, no wonder my heart is so often broken, more
time learning about love then actually being in love. Even
when fictional heroines die I still have good memories,
when my heart is broken I get knocked right back to rock bottom,
but I digress.

My mind is my greatest work out, I read all I can, I study characters,
I want to know everything I can, and when my mind is not in
the dark, there is imagination, creativity, I write stories,
poetry, even this is a study on who I am. I’ve heard the
way to a woman’s heart is laughter… let it not be said
I have no sense of humor but I have never been one for the minimalism
effort of a laugh fest or blasé love story, make me laugh,
make me love, thrill me, terrify me, in truth I want it all
in a movie. While I normally don’t understand art isn’t
the point to seek such meaning?