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Enneagram Type 4 Board Archive Re: There is only one good reason to exercisePosted by Cory on June 29, 2000 at 20:03:19: In Reply to: Re: There is only one good reason to exercise posted by Amanda :) on June 29, 2000 at 05:10:56: Hiya Amanda! You see, I don't have to worry about health right now. For a young man of 19, the most valuable incentive is to lure an attractive female into my reach. Then, around age 40 after having established a family (and/or prowling college bars looking for some young, rejuvenating action) then I would worry more about my health. Nice to see you back... -Cory : Hey there Cory - and how the devil is your narcissistic self doing these days? : Your answer doesn't surprise me one bit - you can be so predictable! : I'd like to live to see 41 (I am 40 now) - so health is the only reason I'm doing this. There's NO WAY I'd expend this much energy to simply attract a guy - I can do that with one batt of my eyelids, pet! : Good to hear from you again :)
: : I can honestly care less if I am healthy. I'd rather die at 70 then live thirty long years as a feeble basketcase then die at 100. : : -Cory : : : Greetings fellow 4's :) : : : I am interested to know who among us is into exercise. I know Hal is a health freak (I mean that in a loving way Hal:), and, up until recently, I listed exercise along with any other allegies I had - but I am now a convert! (someone better get a chair for Hal). : : : I have mentioned recently that I had been in hospital shortly after Hal went back home. I was due to be operated on in the early hours of a Tuesday morning, but (luckily for me) things righted themselves on the Monday night. At 7am the next morning when I should have been on the operating table, the surgeon came to visit me with all my medical results and x-rays and announced that he and I were going to have a little talk. He then laid out the bare facts - which in a nutshell said loud and clear that I was in terrible shape and would likely be looking at an early grave. Talk about a big wake-up call. He said that I could avoid all this by paying attention to "the big W's" as he called them. Walk every day, drink lots of Water and fit in a Workout every opportunity I got. : : : So....I have been walking religiously and drinking more water than the average fish - and do my regular Tae Bo workout....and I'm loving it! : : : What surprises me is that I'm not only loving it - but it's having all kinds of other benefits that I hadn't even thought of. I mean, sure - I'm losing weight, which is very nice I suppose (I don't really give a pair of fetid dingoes kidneys about it though) - but I can't believe how expending energy actually energises me more. Not only that, but I can concentrate better, I handle stress better and I even feel more emotionally and spiritually 'in touch'. : : : I've read all this before - but to actually experience it....wow! : : : Just for the record, though....I'm still a night owl (I frequently go for my walks at 4am when I get home from the studio before I go to bed) - and I ALWAYS stop for a smoke about halfway through my walk. I'm doing it on my own terms, Hal :) : : : So come on guys....spill it.
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