February 10, 2011
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Resuming Work-Out
I went to gym yesterday. I plan to resume work-out. What makes me make up my mind? It is a guy without limbs.
I am reading Nick Vujicic’s Life Without Limits: Inspiration for a Ridiculously Good Life. I am not a christian. And I do not buy the concept of God very much. But I buy his concept of faith. The reason is simple. When you face a guy without limbs, what ground can you hold to reject his belief helping him fighting for all those difficulties of life? In front of him, I am small even though I have my four limbs. I remember last time we played Nick’s video to the whole school. That was the first time the whole school went dead silent and all students were absolutely attentive. Nick is so powerful that you can feel it by only looking at him.
According to him, there are two kinds of changes. One comes from the external. The other comes from within. We cannot reject the first one. But we can initiate the second one. This really hits me somewhere. I was quite open-minded to changes. And I always considered myself a change agent. But there have been many changes. They have once suffocated me. I forgot what I had once been. There are so many changes which I cannot manage to resist. I can choose to change accordingly. But keeping up with those changes blinded me from those changes I should initiate from within.
I plan to resume work-out because I want to cure my back pain and neckache. The most important of all, I want to get hold of my life again. If I do not have some requests of my own health, what else can I achieve? Therefore, I did weight training and treadmill running yesterday. I plan to alternate with swimming. Well, I do not whether I can persist or not. But this is only the first step. After all, I am only 40. If I give up on myself at this moment, how can I survive the remaining half of my life? If I have already consumed most of my life, how can I waste the little remains of my days?
My eyes went watery on the day Nick’s video was broadcast in the campus. Life is meaningful and purposeful no matter what.
