Them That's Got Shall Get

This is the first post of my own successful restoration to good physical health through yoga.

 

My purpose is twofold; one, to encourage anyone to take up yoga and two, to document my own transit:

• Anyone -- to look at me riding up Franklin Blvd. you would not (even remotely) suspect that that overweight, balding, rather unpleasant looking guy has discovered a genuine physical and philosophical system that has completely changed who he was prior to 2012, and that he is precisely "anyone."
  
  Document -- in the past eight years I have often had a goal to "complete a real forward fold," and at some point in the last year I "declared success" -- I got my palms on the ground.  In hindsight, I now realize I will always be working towards completing a real forward fold...but I still want to document my progression.

As I have built myself back up physically, I have returned to the principles of living that I once espoused, somewhat obtusely, on my other long running but abandoned blog GoneSolar.  I loved blogging about American's propensity for resource squandering, passive acceptance of horrible urban design, with the occasional political commentary thrown in...but I also did it for posterity.  I enjoy looking back on the person I was, the person who thought those thoughts and who wrote them down, even if they do or don't at all represent who I am today. 

 

Will I be the same person in 2018?  While I today hope so, I bet I would have said the same thing in 2011 about today...and indeed, I am so glad I'm not.  This is the value of blogging to me -- not for you, but for your Monologuonian -- so I can see today the person I was, and hopefully keep the things I like and eliminate that which no longer serves me.  And there's a lot that didn't serve me!