Day 23 – The Assessment.
Captain’s log.
Day 23 – The Assessment.
4:51 p.m. (3 days after)
6:30 a.m… I am at the gym… The things I do sometimes are beyond my comprehension. Anyone who gets to know me, one of the things that becomes clear about my persona is that I am NOT a morning person. I don’t function well. Mornings is something my brain cannot comprehend. Moving on…
I was there for an “assessment.” And by “assessment” I mean the trainer has you do a lot of weird exercises and then tell you how much you suck. In a nice way, though. And with a smile you just want to SLAP out of the trainer’s face. But since you’re either too tired or feeling sorry for yourself, slapping another person is the last of your priorities. I appreciated the fact he let me run, nonetheless. And you know my relationship with running – I am completely infatuated with it. So after an hour of being judged, I ran home and got ready for work.
Guess what happened next? I was basically scraping every ounce of energy to keep myself awake every hour. It was ridiculous how tired I was. I even fell asleep at the barbershop I went to after work. It was so embarrassing. Thank the heavens my barber and me are close… The latter took some of the embarrasment away.
Thankfully, I got out of there soon enough to go to… THE GYM! Yes. I went to the gym. Why? Because I need running in my life. Apart from stating the obvious, I got into my “realization mode” today. While running, I was thinking of all the things I did today. Then I compared today with yesterday and the day before and so on. You could say I did an assessment of my own. Then it hit me. I didn’t even think of alcohol at all. I believe I have conditioned my brain to just not think about alcohol anymore because it’s not relevant to my life. And, to be honest, the latter seems like a good statement to reflect on regarding other situations in life. Don’t you think?
- L
