Monday Moment #3
Pain.
We all experience pain in many ways for various reasons. I seem to have been in a lot of it lately, especially this weekend. (Skip to the next paragraph if you wish to avoid a bunch of whining ala moi.) I have been dealing with a sinus headache, non-stop, for 2 weeks now. I’ve about had it! Then I made the bright move of trying to pick up my 55 pound child—and not in a good, safe way. I was sitting on the couch twisting sideways to lift her from where she sat next to me. Uhg! Not smart. Backache…headache…but still writing (not saying I’ve been doing it well). But that’s love, when you persevere through the pain.
Okay, whining’s over…and after all of that, it’s not the story of where the thought for the next prompt came from, but it did seem appropriate, as I looked through my list of choices (yes, I keep a list of these).
I don’t think my love of a hard workout is secret. And I’ve shared with you that I’m now a Bodypump instructor, and I am loving it. I loved going through the intense training. And recently I loved the day I taught two classes in one day. It was an exciting challenge to me, even though I knew it would be difficult. And it was…and there was pain…but I loved it. I figured that I did squats for about 20 minutes, with approximately 40 pounds on my back, in that one day. Was I sore the next day? Sure was! But that night, I thought, you have to love doing something in order to work through the parts that hurt that much. And I believe a really hard workout is a whole lot like writing. I do both, even though, at times, it hurts. A lot.
What will your character do until it hurts?
We all experience pain in many ways for various reasons. I seem to have been in a lot of it lately, especially this weekend. (Skip to the next paragraph if you wish to avoid a bunch of whining ala moi.) I have been dealing with a sinus headache, non-stop, for 2 weeks now. I’ve about had it! Then I made the bright move of trying to pick up my 55 pound child—and not in a good, safe way. I was sitting on the couch twisting sideways to lift her from where she sat next to me. Uhg! Not smart. Backache…headache…but still writing (not saying I’ve been doing it well). But that’s love, when you persevere through the pain.
Okay, whining’s over…and after all of that, it’s not the story of where the thought for the next prompt came from, but it did seem appropriate, as I looked through my list of choices (yes, I keep a list of these).
I don’t think my love of a hard workout is secret. And I’ve shared with you that I’m now a Bodypump instructor, and I am loving it. I loved going through the intense training. And recently I loved the day I taught two classes in one day. It was an exciting challenge to me, even though I knew it would be difficult. And it was…and there was pain…but I loved it. I figured that I did squats for about 20 minutes, with approximately 40 pounds on my back, in that one day. Was I sore the next day? Sure was! But that night, I thought, you have to love doing something in order to work through the parts that hurt that much. And I believe a really hard workout is a whole lot like writing. I do both, even though, at times, it hurts. A lot.
What will your character do until it hurts?