My Body Truly Amazes Me. Darn It.
What? No one has posted here since . . . heck, when did I post last?
I could have posted about the beach. My three flat tires (bike). My first ever chiropractic adjustment. How I’m going to tank the run of another triathlon on Saturday. The first day of school. My therapy epiphany.
But no.
I just didn’t write.
I did everything else but blog.
So to love and pet and whisper I’m sorry for being gone so long to my dearest blog, I’m hopping on the Finish The Sentence Friday bandwagon.
For I can hop. It’s Friday. And I like to finish sentences.
My own. And everyone else’s.
Hoeing in a sundress. Is that a word? Hoeing?
The most amazing thing my body has done is…
1. Given birth.
That’s cliche. The truth. But cliche.
As a writer, I’m taking a giant leap over the obvious.
2. Had sex.
An act I seriously wondered in sixth grade if I’d ever accomplish.
With someone else, that is.
But guess what. My body has done it. With another. At least once.
See Number 1.
3. Swam a mile in the St. Pete Bay as part of a triathlon.
The water was so rough, I looked at the kayaks. Really, really hard. If you touch a kayak, its stoic rider scanning the waters with his mirrored sunglasses, you are out. As in out of the race.
I felt guilty even entertaining such notions at the time — till I heard that they fished 90 would-be participants out of the bay that day.
4. Ran two marathons.
I blame training for two marathons in consecutive years, as the reason my knees are sh*t for running but that’s how I roll.
Go big and f*ck up for knees for the rest of your life. WOOOOO.
5. Swim.
Have you ever truly swam? It’s the most amazing body experience.
Secondly only to Number 1. Number 2. And Number 6.
6. I can’t think of anything.
No. After weighing all my personal options, I’m going to go another way.
The most amazing thing my body has done is . . . grow old.
It’s me.
The the same 25-year-old me on the insides.
Yet not me.
I now have gray hair that I color. Skin that drapes on my frame with a mind of it’s own. Aches. Pains. Hormones that are fleeing my body faster than urban development around The TED. RIP.
My body relentlessly grows old.
A fact amazes me every day.
And what say you?
