Waiting Until “The End”
I have been in pretty good shape lately. Between Ashtanga yoga once a week in class and a few mornings on my own and my regular gym routine, I am feeling stronger than I have for some time. In fact, I feel so strong, that I want to stop time and let this be the shape that I am in from now on. I have this fantasy that someday I will reach this pinnacle of fitness, so somehow, finally I won’t have to work out anymore. Kind of like a fitness graduation, where once you have the credentials, you don’t have to work at it anymore.
But in truth, fitness is something that you have to maintain, and it never ends. The only way to win at it is to make it into a habit that you don’t want to break. I find that with a lot of things – with work, relationships etc. – I get to a point where it is so wonderful, that I want to freeze time, or I want the movie that is my life to end exactly at that point… but unfortunately it doesn’t. The next day I wake up, and things are a bit or a lot different, so the ending is not so perfect. Then… it becomes about making the wonderfulness into a habit, just like fitness is.
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