“You’ve never lived what you are thinking, and that isn’t good. Only the ideas we actually live are of any value.”
— Hermann Hesse Demian
2020 has been a strange year. Pretty much for all of us, I’d say. It’s been a year that pushed most of us to live primarily indoors. It forced many of us into a more sedentary lifestyle. It took away from us things—and access to things—we took for granted.
Things like the gym.
Now, if I’m being fair, I’d slacked off from the gym well before COVID-19 took it away from me.
Not going into the details, but our little world was thrown a bit upside down in early 2019. The events of that time led to a similar reclusion. Once the normalcy of that settled in, excuses weaseled their way in, and before you know it excuses brought their lousy son of a bitch friend, the enemy of health and productivity: Weakness.
Before long my evenings consisted of soft clothes and receding into the couch for hours with a tub of popcorn and a six-pack of beer.
That frivolously wasteful use of precious time perpetuated until I’d had enough…and then COVID hit.
That said, today marked the end of that bullshit.