Goalsetting
Jun. 22nd, 2006 04:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
princeinexileIt's very hard to slip away when you're the bossman. Even harder when the outside -- where you want to be -- is clogged up with people by the morning doing self-defense lessons with your over-protective uncle and the Big Red Guy and has random people coming and for scavenging. Your legs are busted up, so the roof is out, cause you just can't GET that high--
-- so you and your ninja, you have to wait for a time that's clear, when no one's asking you anything-- and then you duck out and you try and remember what it was like to move and fight. It's horrible to go back to the beginner stances and slow motion movements that were the meat of your lessons when you were four years old. Worse, is knowing your sister or her lackey could see you, know exactly what you're capable of, how easy they'd be able to remove you--
But you need to move. And you need to remind muscles of what they're supposed to do, how they're supposed to respond. Old exercises and stretches help; you feel better for them, after a couple days of this sneak-out regimin, you feel pretty damn good. You're not jump kicking with flames or anything, but--
-- you keep a goal in mind.
I want to run by the time the baby's here.
Six months, give or take. Maybe less.
So, you work hard -- but not too hard. Pain happens, the bad pain -- you stop. The burn of exercise is good, the sensation of pulls and strains you can recognize, you ease up when you reach those.
Six months. And I'm going to run. Run!
-- so you and your ninja, you have to wait for a time that's clear, when no one's asking you anything-- and then you duck out and you try and remember what it was like to move and fight. It's horrible to go back to the beginner stances and slow motion movements that were the meat of your lessons when you were four years old. Worse, is knowing your sister or her lackey could see you, know exactly what you're capable of, how easy they'd be able to remove you--
But you need to move. And you need to remind muscles of what they're supposed to do, how they're supposed to respond. Old exercises and stretches help; you feel better for them, after a couple days of this sneak-out regimin, you feel pretty damn good. You're not jump kicking with flames or anything, but--
-- you keep a goal in mind.
I want to run by the time the baby's here.
Six months, give or take. Maybe less.
So, you work hard -- but not too hard. Pain happens, the bad pain -- you stop. The burn of exercise is good, the sensation of pulls and strains you can recognize, you ease up when you reach those.
Six months. And I'm going to run. Run!
