2008.02.01 : The Great January of the Soul
Make it easy
Make this easy
It's not as heavy as it seems
Make this easy
It's not as heavy as it seems
- Tori Amos
From: msf@michaelfuchs.org To: Anna.■■■■■■■■■■@guardian.co.uk Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2008 13:19:15 +0000 Today it's February, and the sun is shining bright. We made it. And it's amazing what a different park it is anti-clockwise… xxx
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This week I fired my health club. After 3.5 years of trudging into branches of this reputedly top-flight club – in Kensington, Westminster, and in the City, all of which were really much less nice than they seemed – I've returned to the Welfare Home Workout®, and simply running in the park (in a different direction now and, it seems, with a different outlook). I finally had to admit to myself that I had pretty much gotten to the point of hating every single minute in there – largely due to the enormous ass-clowns who, in the main, ran the place, staffed it, and (in particular) patronized it. There's a lot to be said for getting out and interacting with people. But I think it needs to be people you know and like. The only thing worse than isolation is a sort of virtual isolation in your headphones – surrounded by anonymous strangers whom you grow to hate bitterly (for their lack of consideration, wankiness, and general annoyingness). Also, it's finally occurred to me that there's just something really sad and self-absorbed about a place where people go solely to sculpt themselves. Anyway, today, for the first time in years, I only had to deal with a single wanker – a guy yelling in my ear on the pavement on Cromwell Road, and he probably had a good reason – and that for only about half a second. The rest of the time, the sun came through my window on my push-ups – and shined brightly on my face as I ran through the grass.
This change of exercise regime is probably just a chip away at the much larger stone of probably needing to do a lot of things differently. But it's a start. And as Tony didn't say, "Change is good, Léon."
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