I'm taking a cue from the Mayans and celebrating this new calendar cycle as an opportunity to completely reinvent myself and my life. I haven't been the person I've wanted to be, and now is as good a time as any to make some changes. Through this blog I'd like to invite all of you to watch the show!
There are a lot of things I'd like to make different about my life. First of all is my weight. I am far more overweight than I'm comfortable with. When I was younger I was able to do much, much more...but, not to put too fine a point on it, I got lazy. I enjoyed food more than I enjoyed life. Now I'm paying the price. I have a lot of reasons why I'm doing what I'm doing now, and I'll probably list those in a future post. But starting today I am beginning a weight loss journey that will last me most of the next six months as I go on a very restricted medically-supervised diet.
Second, my attitude toward life. It's been misguided for quite a while now, informed by a misguided form of fundamentalism that borrows as much from Kurt Vonnegut's Harrison Bergeron as it does from the Bible. "Let no man think more highly of himself than he ought to..." somehow got transformed to "Don't give yourself any credit whatsoever because it will go to your head. I rejected that line of thinking some time ago, but exactly what I'm replacing it with is a matter I've never fully defined, until now.
Third, my goals and aspirations. I've always had them, and now I'm closer than I've ever been before to realizing one set of them. Actually, the replacement of the replacement, but sometimes you take what you can get. At the same time I'm starting the diet I'm also entering my second semester of graduate school. This may seem like a lot to take on, but I don't quite feel alive unless I'm being challenged.
With the help of my family and my good friends, I hope to bring this all into reality. Join me as the journey begins!
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