Making mistakes makes us who we are, maturing is learning from them and changing
There comes a time in our lives when we realize that we have to take care of ourselves better. Maintenance of our bodies are very important to our health and well being. The daily routine of brushing twice daily, flossing once a day, showering, taking our medication when we are suppose to and other little tasks that are so easy to forget day-to-day, but if you let them slip you pay for it sooner or later. It's taken many years to realize each step for me and now I take care of almost everything I should when it comes to maintenance and taking care of my body I have one more step to do.
The evil exercise. When I was younger it came naturally to me, I was a jock then I slowly started losing my eyesight became frustrated with not being able to do a lot of things I was very good at like playing soccer, racquet ball, badminton, tennis and even tossing a baseball back in forth. I never really swam much and was taught the basics in my tweens and early teens by an adult friend who was a lifeguard. It was nice to have private lessons with her and she had the patience to work with me when things took a while to grasp the proper way to do thing and the way I taught myself over the years. After that I really didn't do much swimming and I'm hoping to change that next year, by joining adult swimming lessons because it would be good to start from the basics again as a visually impaired person and work my way up. I've begun to learn to knit, so why not learn another new trick. For years off and on, I practised Tai chi but the society I belonged to had way to many problems that irritated me so much that I ended up not wanting to go to the classes I loved and two of the best instructors left due to the "politics" as well. So I'm hoping of finding another group to practice tai chi with, I'm even thinking of looking into a school and trying another form. These are things that I need to do in order to take care of myself completely because my blood pressure is low and I've gained a lot of weight in the last two years. Overall weight loss is only a side effect though, I want to feel healthy again, have more energy and maybe there is a chance it will help with my asthma (which is pretty good right now, but since it is allergic asthma it's not pollen season and that's the nail on the coffin on top of all my other allergies).
Positive change is something that you want to take in baby steps till you are able to run the distance without breaking a sweat or realizing that you are running till the world is speeding by.
The evil exercise. When I was younger it came naturally to me, I was a jock then I slowly started losing my eyesight became frustrated with not being able to do a lot of things I was very good at like playing soccer, racquet ball, badminton, tennis and even tossing a baseball back in forth. I never really swam much and was taught the basics in my tweens and early teens by an adult friend who was a lifeguard. It was nice to have private lessons with her and she had the patience to work with me when things took a while to grasp the proper way to do thing and the way I taught myself over the years. After that I really didn't do much swimming and I'm hoping to change that next year, by joining adult swimming lessons because it would be good to start from the basics again as a visually impaired person and work my way up. I've begun to learn to knit, so why not learn another new trick. For years off and on, I practised Tai chi but the society I belonged to had way to many problems that irritated me so much that I ended up not wanting to go to the classes I loved and two of the best instructors left due to the "politics" as well. So I'm hoping of finding another group to practice tai chi with, I'm even thinking of looking into a school and trying another form. These are things that I need to do in order to take care of myself completely because my blood pressure is low and I've gained a lot of weight in the last two years. Overall weight loss is only a side effect though, I want to feel healthy again, have more energy and maybe there is a chance it will help with my asthma (which is pretty good right now, but since it is allergic asthma it's not pollen season and that's the nail on the coffin on top of all my other allergies).
Positive change is something that you want to take in baby steps till you are able to run the distance without breaking a sweat or realizing that you are running till the world is speeding by.