so last week i posted about my frustrations with new-year's-resolution-gymmers. sadly, i deleted that post fairly quickly... mostly because i might have come off a little--ummm, how shall we say--not nice? but actually, that entry was totally nice and lovely.... it just truthfully expressed my exasperation with inconvenience in life. it wasn't directed towards people, but towards particular inconveniences, which have (not suprisingly) resurfaced in my life this week. thus, i feel i must blog about them once and for all. so, as always, no offense intended and i love everyone, but my blog is for expressing myself. so here we go...
ok, the gist of last week's entry was this: people who are now going to the gym in hoards, merely for the sake of trying to fulfill their redundant new year's resolutions of weight loss, are making my life more difficult. the fact is that they probably won't be at the gym in a few months, when almost all of them will have lost their commitment to lose 5, 10, or 5,000 pounds (which they will almost inevitably not lose this year). i, on the other hand, am a regular gymmer, and i'm at the gym as much (if not slightly less) than i was before new year's, and i'll probably still be near my gym-attendance average about 6 months from now, when the madness of new year's resolutions has passed.
but for now, the new-year's-resolutioners are depriving me of already-impossible-to-find street parking (in smurfing freezing weather) and crowding the gym... to the point that i have to wait for a machine, to the point that there should be a mist of febreze circulating around the sweating masses, to the point that the noise of the machines in the cardio room sounds like the bowels of the titanic.
the amazing thing is that the gym is more crowded now than it was last week! how is that possible?! how have these people not lost their steam yet? i await the day when they'll realize that health is about lifestyle, not short-term activity bursts that revolve around societally-imposed rituals... and on that day, my gym experience will return to a much happier state. so with that said, i maintain my friendly and playful stance: death to the new year's resolution. :)
Posted by naseem at January 25, 2005 12:03 AM | TrackBackHey Nas, no need to apologize (to me, at least) for being blunt. Your intentions and frustrations are obviously honest and not malicious. This goes back to my take on the PC culture. Here's a tip to those of you easily offended: AVOID THE THINGS THAT OFFEND YOU. It's your own choice to read something, and it's your CHOICE to be offended by it. Get it? You can choose not to be offended and you can choose to remove yourself from the offending person or idea. This is one way in which I try to justify my 100% backing of free speech, taking the good with the bad. Now stand aside and let Nas talk. If you don't like what she says, tough. Or if you're feeling particularly adventurous, try to understand _why_ you're offended, do a little self-examination, and try again. If you're still "offended," you have a choice: DON'T COME BACK.
Posted by: george at January 25, 2005 04:55 PMWow--
Baha'u'llah is Good.... He has already taken care of your problem Nas for the next thousand years or so, at least.
Well, we should techincally be making little resolutions everyday --i.e. "Bring yourself to a acount each day." (I will not make the vampire joke here--as a courtesy to Nas--although everyone who reads this made it in their heads by now--so I got you Nas!)
So, you shouldn't need a big failure of a new years resolution if you are doing your pre-"reckoning" behavior EVERYDAY Resolutions.
But, Nas with a big sister wand --I have to say that maybe you should try to think of your fellowing annoying gym goers in a "culture of encouragement" way. Maybe the reason they quit, in Febuary, is because you have been thinking negative thoughts about them! Naa--kick them to the curb--you go Nas!
By the way...I feel after reading the above comment that I have been suddenly transported to the set of the game show "JEOPARDY". Who was offended?
Although I appreciate your pre-emptive (sp?) defense of Nas or Nas like behavior...because I love her!
Artemis, that was more of a personal rant in response to Nas' preemptive apology to those who might take offense. I got a bit carried away. Sorry.
--Trebek
Posted by: george at January 26, 2005 08:52 AMTem, I love that you just made this about the 5YP. That, my dear, is why I love you.
Culture of encouragement!!!!!! Encourage those new years resolutioners!
Posted by: Lacey at January 26, 2005 09:50 AMyeah – encourage them to find a different gym! ha! kidding… well, not really.
Posted by: delara at January 27, 2005 12:05 PM