Tread Softly...

Some days you sit down to type, and you know what you want to say, and the words flow from your fingertips, and it's all good.
Today is not one of those days.
It's a day full of ups and downs, although that doesn't mark today down as particularly unusual lately.

One of my favourite films is a sci-fi action movie called Equilibrium, starring Christian Bale. Set in a future post-war 1984 Orwellian society, the population are fed regular mood limiting drugs to eliminate the highs and lows of emotions. Art, music, entertainment, feelings themselves, are prohibited.

Some days, I wonder if this is how large parts of our society live anyway...how many people wander through life with no goals, no ambitions, no basic desire to improve themselves.

This simple drive for self improvement and betterment is the basis of the evolutionary process.
It's also fundamental to us, as humans, becoming something more than we currently are.
The drive to improve our last lift, our last time, our last movement.
The drive to stand up again everytime we fall.
3-2-1...

Would I like to live in the Equilibrium society?

Would I fore go the pain of failure, of rejection, of loss?
Of course.

However, would I miss the joy of the perfect set of swings, the exhausted elation at the end of a 100 rep deadlift set, the indescribable high of fighting warriors equally as good as you where one slip means defeat or pain?
Even more so.

I'll take the downs, because every single high is worth a thousand lows.

Today's Training:
5 x Tactical Pullups followed immediately by 10 x chest to floor push ups every minute on the minute for 20 minutes (100 pull-ups/200 push ups)
10 TGUs & 200 Swings with the 24 (today's JB Challenge)
10 minutes of 30s on/30s off hill sprints, increasing incline every minute.

And the feeling after this workout more than made up for any downside of today.
It always does.
It always will.

General Out