You know, it’s easy to have big balls when you are 20, 30 years of age. It’s another thing to have that big balls attitude, confidence, courage, audacity, assertiveness and aggressiveness into your 50, 60, 70, 80, and 90′s.
Based on a few hundred whining and complaining responses to my last post on insurance and my typical Warrior-stern emphasis on self-reliance, I have to wonder if some of you mens’ wives don’t often wonder if they are laying next to another woman at night instead of the man they believed they married. Take my advice: you want to impress (or try and get the sympathy of) someone hell bent on getting the most out of every day of their life, don’t write and tell them you were a real stud in high school and wore a letter jacket all weighted-down with pendants all three years of high school but you’ve let yourself go over the last 20 years and starting to feel and see the sorry-ass effects of having done so.
Today’s Labor Day. So how about subjecting yourself to some?! Get up off your ass, get outside…get out and give yourself a gut check. Maybe you’ll be fortunate enough to tear a muscle or two. These kinds of incredible, wonderful pains have a tendency to remind you that you are still alive. When you’ve had enough — which will be way, way before what your body and mind can actually handle — stand there, between your short, wheezy breaths and fear of heart attack, and ponder whether or not letting your physical self go all to hell all these years is really worth all the other comforts and securities you’ve acquired in your life.
If you say no, you stand a good chance at getting your big balls attitude back. If you say yes, you’re destined to live out the remainder of your days thinking, believing and acting tiny.
“Youth is not a time of life – it is a state of mind. It is not a matter of red cheeks, red lips and supple knees. It is a temper of the will; a quality of the imagination; a vigor of the emotions; it is a freshness of the deep springs of life. Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over a life of ease. This often exists in a man of fifty, more than in a boy of twenty. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years; people grow old by deserting their ideals.” – Samuel Ullman
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Another EXCELLENT post Warriorman — when certain people don’t (or rather, refuse to) understand things when they are explained in a simple, yet blunt manner, then this is the best way to address them.
I’ve been away for a bit, but I managed to read your blog entry about insurance — I agree with every point you made.
The socialist/marxist approach that Obama is trying to strangle America with, it’s nothing short of criminal. I’m UK based, and so everyday I see first hand how socialist policies are failures — it makes the system even more prone to abuse.
Obama once said that he wants to replicate the UK health system… and on that day, I realised that he’s an even bigger moron than I ever gave him credit for being. The UK health system is a notorious failure… and yet the leader of the world’s biggest superpower is inspired by it??? Great.
It’s real simple — every individual has a PERSONAL responsibility to work hard, make a living for themselves, and see themselves through ALL challenges of life (because they CAN and MUST!). Human beings are more capable than they even know — they MUST look within and make use of their incredible potential to make GREAT things happen in their OWN lives!
However, when a government wants to start spoonfeeding the bums of society (and in turn, give them reason to keep sitting their asses instead of doing something with their lives), things turn bleak and nations fall. But still, if the (Warrior minded) people are willing to take control of their lives and rise above the mediocrisity/anti-empowerment direction that governments want to take them, then there is STILL hope.
For those who believe that “there isn’t enough time” to workout and dedicate to health and fitness, well, they just don’t “get it”. You HAVE to MAKE the time to give your body what it DEMANDS!
Also Warriorman, I would like to take this oppertunity to thank you for the Warrior Workout START kit — I can finally say that when it comes to health and fitness, I do “get it”. The START kit purchase is the best thing I’ve done for myself in a long time.
Regards,
Jesal.
Great post. It is rather ironic too. About half an hour ago my son (who also has Crohn’s) and I were out cutting tree limbs. I felt a tendon pop in my left hand while doing so. After we finished, Alex and I were draging the brush and he told me “That was kind of fun, daddy.” Indeed it was.
I find some humor in the fact that I am more active now that when I was healthy 20+ years ago. Sure, the pain I live with stops me…but only for a time. Today I will push until I am exhausted (weed eating, etc) and Alex wants to cut down a dead tree in our yard. I am sure tomorrow I will pay for it. But today my willpower will overpower my pain.
Many who know me give me shyt for “pushing myself.”
What they don’t get is that to a disabled person, the times I am able to do crap like this…well, it is better than sex. There is a great pleasure from tackling a task…looking at it and saying “Yeah, I did that.”
So many of our young and healthy people take their good health for granted. Years down the road they will face regret. And regret is the most dangerous of all emotions.
Great post as usual my friend. And the three sickly people in this house all thought your insurance post was spot on. A hand thrust out for help is just begging to be chained.
Be well,
Sponge
The manner in which society as a whole, especially now treats or I should say mistreats our older generations is appauling.This whole health care pitch is making it appear appealing to actually let our elders go without a fight to prolong their lives just because they are “old”. I have an 84 year old Mom, 88 year old mom-in-law and 82 year old aunt who all will be living with me soon and their biggest concern is stretching their meager savings so they can afford some type of health care so we the younger generations don’t have to be burdened with their care. Since when is it a burden to care for those who gave you life?
You inspire so many because you say what so many of us feel. I have physical limitations but I work out almost every day to a program you helped me design, and on those days when I just cannot make it to the work out room I work out my mind on rewarding projects that later will aid me in becoming a fully developed and contributing member of my family and our place in this world. So many whiners and so little time. Try living the lives our parents lived during the REAL depression then you can whine some…but they never have and they never will. They are eternally greatful just to still be here and it is up to us to make sure whatever time they have left is of the very best quality DESPITE what our government says we should do to further the cause of their socialist reform agenda.
The only thing people are motivated to do nowadays is sit on the couch and moan about their miserable lives with a bag of doritos in one hand and a twinkie in the other while watching American Idol. Then they pick up their cell phone to call their lawyer to check on their malpractice case because their lap ban is not working. This is what my country has become. No motivation to even take the stairs. Elevators should be banned. Facebook should be assbook because the overload of fat asses in this country. I am glad I like to exercise and eat good food so when it comes crashing down I will be healthy enough to get out of the way.
While I am not 50 yet, I am 40. My Mom is 80, she is as young, and in better shape than many 40 year old women. She spent this weekend helping to wallpaper my Nieces house. She also mows her own yard with a push mower and shovels her own snow. I live over 4 hours a way or I would help her. She grew up on a farm. Fortunately, I inherited her gumption. My neighbor commented to me this week that I was the only person on the block that uses a push mower and wanted to know when I was going to get a rider. I asked him why do I need to, I get out I get exercise and fresh air and sunshine. While I do not have any children, that same neighbor has trouble lifting his 2 year old daughter. I spent my weekend playing so hard with my 2 year old, 120 lbs Lab, tackling him running around the yard catching him and picking him up, that I wore him out. You know how hard it is to wear out a 2 year old Lab. He was so tired even the next morning we got up and let him outside and he promptly went out there and fell asleep again. Oh did I mention after I wore out my lab I went to the gym. I fully support this post, exercise will keep you young. I do shake my head and pity those people that live in McMansions with small yards that have riding lawnmowers.