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The inner child speaks again

stonecipher
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When I asked why we don't move like children anymore (run, skip, turn in circles) I was told that society expects us to act like adults.  Hmmmm

Is that why we are doing Zumba?  Running on asphalt?  Running on treadmills?  Lifting weights? 

We are doing those things to make up for the fact that 95% of the time we move "like adults".  Which means, not much and not in any way exaggerating our motions.  No, we can only do that while wearing ridiculous tight clothing and listening to hip hop. And we pay someone to teach us how to move like we did when we were kids.

I don't like hip hop.  I don't like Zumba (apologies to my daughter in law the instructor). I don't look good in spandex.  It think bump and grind dancing looks juvenile. To each his own.

I don't like gyms (apologies to nephew who is a director of one) where people gather to sweat together.  Maybe that is the adult way, but most of them don't look like they are having fun.  It's called a "work-out" cause, that's right, we're adults now.  We don't play.

I am going to skip and jump in puddles.  I am going to swim and kayak and hike and run in the woods.  I am going to dance in my own house in my own clothes to music I love.  I am going to do yoga.  I am going to practice being still and listening as well. I am going to lift weights, but I am not going to bench press.  I am going to tend my garden and shovel snow, scrub my floors and walls, and push my lawn mower.

I just think we would be better off if we kept some of the traits of childhood. This may sound like I am against exercise and I am not. I actually admire the discipline and the results of those who work out and do aerobics. I just want to point out that some of our exercise looks pretty silly when you think about it.  And it is not the only way to fitness. . .

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