How to become a couch potato in ten lessons?
August 28th 2007 13:31
It is amazing how easy it became to be a couch potato even if you are an energetic and full of life person. It is something that you must be aware of especially because when you fall in the trap it is hard to go back to healthy habits.
So once in your life you were a kid full of life an energy, having running competitions with the other kids. Then you were a teenager, doing martial art, still running around all the time, volley-ball, swimming pool…endless things where your energy was busting around. Then arrived university, you choose a hard school with a lot of courses. You are so busy that doing anything else than studying seems impossible, but after one year at this rhythm you jut want o snap…. Your energy is boiling in you, and even if everybody tells you that your are the most energetic and active person they know, for you it is just not enough.
Funnily enough because you can’t take it anymore you just manage to enroll to this martial art class that was teasing you since a while now. You saved enough money for it, you found a lace to study between your classes at university and your sport class…. Life is good and balanced for you. You might regret a bit that you can’t take part in the competitions or that you have to miss out on some training because of your demanding university, but you still enjoy it and you have extra activities in the week end…. A bit reduced in your opinion and it’s hard for you to find free fields but still it’s an improvement.
But life commitments gets back in your way and the internship that you have to do is on the other side of the city, you have extra costs, less money and surely not enough time to come for the training. So you stopped your trainings you are exhausted when you come home after your internship, the hour in the bus and sometimes also your uni class. Even on the weekend, the lack of enthusiasm of your fellow students and the hard time you have to find facilities the tiredness of the week are affecting your enthusiasm…. Time goes by and your are just waiting for the time a breach will appear so you can go back to what you like.
Hurray you started working, no homework anymore, a bit more money and a small taste of freedom is in the air. The time to take your marks and you think that you will have the time to do all the things you want, the things you always dreamed to have the time and the money to do. That is what you think, but time doesn’t stretch and your bossy boss expect a lot from you, you have to do extra hours, you have a lot of unexpected expenses and bigger ones (yes you forgot that working/formal clothes, not living with your parents costs a lot…etc).
But still you are a very motivated person and you adapt quickly, you run everywhere and you try to squeeze some activities in your time table.
So, you manage to do some things aside from your professional life not as much as you would like but better than a lot of people you know? And you think that is working fine? Oh how easy it is to just relax into your sofa and be hypnotized by TV….. you work extra hours, you work on the other part of the city, none of your friends want or have the time to do sport with you and that is without talking money, the time that doesn’t stretch, the responsibilities that you have, the familial obligations ….. What you are drowning already? But you are not married yet, no kids, no Dependant parents ….. Guess what this is just getting started.
Why isn’t there anymore free fields for training and people who want to play just for fun? Do we actually need to be part of a club, have the proper shoes and clothes to play, sorry to do sport? Why do I have to pay that much to run on a machine where I could have a place to run outside? Is it so difficult to have fields in the living/working areas for people to enjoy? Why are they so few fields and parks? Wouldn’t be better having them than paying the adds to prevent obesity or paying for the treatment for all the diseases related to overweight?
Better than putting malls and shopping center in each corner that became the big attraction of the weekend and the week nights, would be putting even a small basket ball field….. So there is no field around, no person motivated to come and play with you (specifically if you play just for fun and you are not good), you are working too much and you just want to relax a bit at home?
It is soooooo easy to slide into your sofa….. Yes! All these series that we have to follow…. And all the new TV reality shows, hypnotic and brain washing. oh after a while even when you want it becomes harder and harder to motivate yourself to go alone to run , to the gym ....etc.
Remember? that was in the case where you were that motivated, enthusiastic full of energy person…. What about the people who are not?
What about the ten lesson you are wondering? Well you can find them yourself and they are probably more 3 or 4 then 10…. This is what we call false advertising!!!
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Comment by Anonymous
Ed,