Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Determination, Resilience, and Healthiness

I was going over my old blog of Y360 and was looking at a few things that I had wrote on and it’s funny how some thing don’t change. In reflection of it all I can see that I am very persistent in what I do. Some things have changed slightly probably in the course of one year but not all that much. For myself that is.

 

I think we all go through cycles in life in some manner. Things go up and there are areas that revolve around the things that we really don’t have much control over. But I do believe in taking heed of what I can do. Not in what I can’t do.  One that I am staying convicted to what I am doing for myself with training. I am not a trainer that trains to be really big if you know what I mean. My training is geared towards agility and cardio. As we get older we find things that come up. And in seeing what I have seen within my own family with Cancer, this was the turning point for me that took me back into something that I have done since I was a child. But as an adult it's different, you train around the areas to improve your health. Certainly when I was younger I trained without a regard to anything but just doing it. Now I do it in a certain style and manner for health's sake.  Which is not work, it's actually fun.

Health does benefit one in so many ways. And once one has embarked on something most often if they stay with it - it become a healthy routine. A few months ago I could not hardly do a thing and now I am doing it. Am I returning back to where I was before, no I might surpass that but in a slower manner. As one friend mentioned a few times "I am whom I am". And in a time in which we live in a rather “I” society, I believe that there are times that one does come first.

Where does a trail lead – I think that all depends on what each person believes in and what ever gets him or her “there” so be it. It’s a time of people maybe over thinking things and I know I have done this especially with things that I have lived with for several years – but it’s not about the time lost or the loved ones that will not be around much longer – it’s about what life has to offer in the future. And regardless of what age you are – there is always time. That is if one desires it to be so. I know I do, and I know that my path took a drastic change with cancer within my family, and I came back last week learning some things again shared between my father and myself. I am the youngest in my family and yet it seems I am the keeper of my family. But I wish to spread my wings and fly. And that does not come all in one day. But it does come.

6 comments:

  1. Fab I know. I am doing it and I wanted to place two images of now and then. And really within both of them it's still me yet I am older now. I don't believe in allowing pride get in the way. I am a pacifist. But I have done so many things in my life and I look forward to doing so much more. I hope that comes out right and understandable with what I am stating here.

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  2. It is nice to see the young Jack and the still young Jack at a glance. I must admit I would certainly benefit from more exercise in my routine as it is obvious it does benefit you. A good night to you Jack.

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  3. That picture you know all to well. It's one year old and I am not young nor old. I am just whom I am. As are you. Good night - time zones! :)

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  4. Time flies fleetingly indeed...and with time, changes occur in one's appearance and environment. But there's one thing that will never change with time...that very person within oneself though much wiser!!

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  5. just an evolving person as we all are - thanks Lettie glad your back in Thailand your home or primary one as I see it.

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