The last good day of the year
The last good day of my year - well really this is my New Year and Christmas all rolled into one. As far as I'm concerned tomorrow is the start of the year. The REAL start. It is when the sun returns to the Earth, it is when winter gets over itself. It is when I turn a year older.
I will be 47 years old! Unbelievable. I love being in my 40s - it has been the decade where some of the most incredible things that happened to me took place. I got a new job I love, for starters. I did so many things I had meant to do. I learnt so many new things. I went to so many new places. I have, most of all, learnt a lot of things about myself.
I have decided that this is the year when I am going to get things together fitness and physically wise. This is when I will take my health seriously. I suppose, like many younger people, I have just assumed my body is going to look after itself, but this year it really made me aware that I am getting older and older. Strange aches and pains began to manifest itself. I had this weird hip type trapped nerve which impacted on my walking. I just assumed it would go away at some stage, but it just stayed and on some days it got better and then worser.
Then my knee began acting up - if i got up too quickly, this old injury I had where I dislocated my knee while I was running and slipped, would come back. I'd FEEL the knee cap sliding out and it would take, again a couple of days to get back into shape. It has all just eventually sorted itself out, but it did make me wonder what the heck I was doing to my body.
Being someone who just got on with not noticing these physical ailments, it was very disconcerting. So this year, I have decided I need to let my future self manifest itself and it is going to be a stronger, healthier me. I want to spend this year dedicated to my physical well being. And I strongly believe that if I take care of my physical well being in a sensible way my mental health will follow. So look after the body and the body will look after everything else. I want to eventually go into my 60s and beyond being strong, climbing mountains, going for runs, swimming, stretching, seeing what the world has to offer. Yes, I want to be THAT 60 year old. And it starts here, it starts now. If I don't look after my body now, it is going to be too late.
I will be 47 years old! Unbelievable. I love being in my 40s - it has been the decade where some of the most incredible things that happened to me took place. I got a new job I love, for starters. I did so many things I had meant to do. I learnt so many new things. I went to so many new places. I have, most of all, learnt a lot of things about myself.
I have decided that this is the year when I am going to get things together fitness and physically wise. This is when I will take my health seriously. I suppose, like many younger people, I have just assumed my body is going to look after itself, but this year it really made me aware that I am getting older and older. Strange aches and pains began to manifest itself. I had this weird hip type trapped nerve which impacted on my walking. I just assumed it would go away at some stage, but it just stayed and on some days it got better and then worser.
Then my knee began acting up - if i got up too quickly, this old injury I had where I dislocated my knee while I was running and slipped, would come back. I'd FEEL the knee cap sliding out and it would take, again a couple of days to get back into shape. It has all just eventually sorted itself out, but it did make me wonder what the heck I was doing to my body.
Being someone who just got on with not noticing these physical ailments, it was very disconcerting. So this year, I have decided I need to let my future self manifest itself and it is going to be a stronger, healthier me. I want to spend this year dedicated to my physical well being. And I strongly believe that if I take care of my physical well being in a sensible way my mental health will follow. So look after the body and the body will look after everything else. I want to eventually go into my 60s and beyond being strong, climbing mountains, going for runs, swimming, stretching, seeing what the world has to offer. Yes, I want to be THAT 60 year old. And it starts here, it starts now. If I don't look after my body now, it is going to be too late.
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