Manifestos.

As I approach thirty years of age, I present you with something special, as I look over the past. It begins when you recognize that we all have a story of our lives that we're writing for ourselves as we go. The past begets the future and it's hard to see any path beyond that…

It's something so obvious, I'm really surprised I haven't explicitly written it out. Of how I've learned to trust my intuition. This isn't to say everybody has an intuition worth following. Some people can't get through the muddle of their mind to what will really make them happy. Somewhere along...

I believe I've finally uncovered the final seal on myself. The last stone that remained unturned. As I've expressed all semester, I've been taking a lot of pride in myself. This is a great thing! Last night I got an email from an old friend. I went looking through some old conversations of ours l...

I'm a good person. It's such an obvious thing, yet something I don't think of when I consider self-identity. As I recall, my need to be a good person was so strong, that it was very hard for me to reconcile doing anything that could possibly not be "good". Part of my overhaul, as I…

Not so much a revolutionary thought as it is a concise thought that's been thought before, could always use a refreshing, and definitely needs to be written down for posterity. With my year-long goal of finishing school complete, I lack goals at the moment, both long and short-term. So. What do I...

It was sometime in class today that I reaffirmed why I care about fitness. About being healthy. It's more than looking good and feeling good. It's about not dying. Guy next to me was looking to check my heartrate, seeing if he could read it off of my wrist. Said it was about 60. I…

We got our second exam back tonight. I aced it just like I did the first exam. I've been feeling pretty good, especially with notice from the college that I'll be graduating in May. Not to mention paying off my car loan yesterday. So I've been feeling pretty good. I forget whether I've mentioned ...

The next step, I think I recognize what the next step is. First, let me recount. It started when I reckoned that the sum of my life doesn't condemn me to being one person, or to one fate. Then I declared that my emotions are valid, and it's okay to feel. Then I declared that…

I stated in the Health Manifesto how I don't want to die the way my grandpas did. Weak and feeble, their health declined, succumbing to their own ignorance. There's more to this. My greatest fear is dying alone. Since my teens, I've been afraid that I'll die alone and incoherent. I've known that ...

I've shared why I started lifting. That's simple to answer. I noticed a mental identification of myself with the adjective "weak". I also noticed a complete resistance to anything strength-related. I was the guy in High School who wrote papers on why gym should be dropped. So in the spirit of goi...