Your Roads Have Potholes And So Does Your Body

We used to build things that lasted. We used to build with the intention of a better future. We used to plant seeds and nurture things, not knowing whether we’d be there to reap the benefits.

Something changed in our psyche over time. Something changed in the way we approach life and as rapper Locksmith ( dalocksmith ) on Instagram put it in his song “America Part 2”, “everything in your feed is feed”. We are being fed a way of being. We are being convinced that there are hacks and quick fixes.

We have slowly been cultivated into a culture that does not value tangibility. We buy things knowing that there is planned obsolescence. We buy cheap products at Ikea because we’ll just leave it or dump it when we move.

This is now our approach to things. When I tell people I work with that what they want from me is going to take time, many people are unwilling to commit to the time required. Many people make excuses about why they didn’t do the 2 or 3 exercises I asked them to do daily, and when they don’t get any change they wonder why. I mean, if you can’t commit to 2 or 3 exercises per day, then why am I going to spend energy building an elaborate 6 week program with full workout prescription?

How many times have people downloaded a program and never finished it?

How many times have I offered a 4 week program only for people to start week one and never continue?

A capitalist simply says “oh well”… But this is one of the problems with Capitalism. It makes people into providers that don’t care as long as they get paid, and consumers who over-consume and barely use.

As a healthcare professional, my commitment is to the health of people.

Of course I need to make a living, but I’m not here to capitalize and exploit in order to gain wealth. Contrary to what the system feeds you, we can feed our families and still center our humanity.

To reframe and to change the world we gotta start with ourselves. And like Gil Scott-Heron said, we have to change the way we think in order to change the way we move, and the way we are living.

Let’s start changing our mind.