How Fit Do You Want to Be?

I wrote this (below) four years ago and I think I never posted it anywhere.  I bet I thought I needed to write more.

Just found it and I still love the story.

Happy Weekend Before Christmas

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Sometimes I have so much to say and sometimes it’s Monday.

I read part of an essay this weekend.

In the essay, a woman goes to a young Fitness Coach. The coach asks the 50-ish woman to rate her sense of her fitness on a scale of 1-10, 10 being excellent. The woman thinks a while. She got up before 6AM that day, made breakfast for her family, got the kids off to school, went to her job, and ran up and down the stairs at work because the elevator was too slow. She says, “Oh, I don’t know, maybe an 8 or 9?”

The younger woman looks at the older woman with incomprehension written across her face. Who rates themselves as good BEFORE they take on a Self-Improvement program??

The older woman thinks to herself, “I don’t need this,” and goes home.

I bet the story isn’t even true, but I love it.