I experiment so you don’t have
to. One day this weekend, I hardly
moved off my couch. I watched both
football games and enough cop shows to convince me that the entire world is
composed of victims and perps, to paraphrase Peter Wimsey. I felt terrible.
I watch football because I love
it. I watch cop shows to quiet my
brain. It is okay to do things I
love, less okay to do things that make me feel terrible. So those hours I spent quieting my
brain with football would have been better spent quieting my brain with
exercise, meditation, or, hey, sleep!
The fitness point here is that
sometimes we need to figure out why we do things that are not good for us and
then find other ways to seek the same ends. I revoked my own tv privileges yesterday, did approximately
four hundred laps around an aircraft carrier, and took a nap. Shockingly, my brain felt just as
soothed and my body felt much better.
In other news, folks pointed out
two interesting articles to me.
Check these out if you want:
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