There will be a last time, a last look, a last moment. It’s something I’ve grown to realize and I would love to say growing older made me realize that, but I think there’s much more to it. I see so many people around me distracting ourselves from the inevitability of what’s to eventually come.
Never have I been in the position I have in life, and never would I have guessed it. Every single day of every single week, I get to meet with beautiful people full of life, who are on the unfortunate side of life. A bed-ridden client who hasn’t taken several steps in years, clients with dementia who hardly, if at all, remember our workout from 2 days ago. Let alone remembering me when I walk through that door from just the other day. I see many patients each week who are trying to change their health because this feels like their last hope.
There is this quote by Seneca that I reflect on as much as I can remember:
“No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.”
To me, this means that we must take what health we have and work endlessly to better it for as long as possible. Whether it does get better, whether we get worse or have to start again at 0. There is nothing else of more importance while we’re here.
After working with people more than double my age for more than 2 years now, It’s fanned the ember that started in my soul many years ago and created a bonfire of passion & understanding of how quickly this all will go. And, how just having your quality of life, right here, and right now, is the most precious & monumentally tangible thing we could possibly imagine.
B3FIT 