I'm an outlier. I could never stick to running or lifting weights. Too lonely, too boring. On the other hand, a team sport that met once a week was too easy to skip.
So I fight. I admire fighters, and I figure it is right for a young man to try to earn himself some glory.
It's the hardest thing I've ever done. I lost 20 pounds. I did things I never thought I could do. I've cried after practice.
On the downside, my schedule is packed between grad school and Muay Thai/ Jiu Jitsu practice. Also, I'm not sure that getting punched in the face is the best way to stay healthy.
But you know what they say: it's better to burn out than to fade away.
Plus, there's no better cure for the ennui, the malaise of the modern world, the lack of purpose, the depression of your savanna mind sitting behind a desk all day than to experience your body as it was meant to be, in all its glory, in the world's most honest and objective form of competition.
So I fight. I admire fighters, and I figure it is right for a young man to try to earn himself some glory.
It's the hardest thing I've ever done. I lost 20 pounds. I did things I never thought I could do. I've cried after practice.
On the downside, my schedule is packed between grad school and Muay Thai/ Jiu Jitsu practice. Also, I'm not sure that getting punched in the face is the best way to stay healthy.
But you know what they say: it's better to burn out than to fade away.
Plus, there's no better cure for the ennui, the malaise of the modern world, the lack of purpose, the depression of your savanna mind sitting behind a desk all day than to experience your body as it was meant to be, in all its glory, in the world's most honest and objective form of competition.