Please feel free to share your stories of how certain little self-care rituals changed your life for the better and have made you proud you started doing them.

  • Hyperreality@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Weight lifting and bodyweight exercises.

    I have a cheap bench press and do a limited amount of exercises once or twice a week. It’s boring and repetitive.

    But all those little bits add up.

    Even though I’m often severely depressed, I have managed to keep going. I stop for a week or two, but then I restart. And I am reminded of that when I look in a mirror or I catch someone 'mirin. Even now when I’m getting older. I’ll have a better body at 50 than I did at 20. I don’t look like the terminator, but I look better than most guys my age.

    I have a couple of degrees, but I’m less proud of those. I sometimes regret going to uni, many people have a degree, being able to study is often a result of luck (parents, money), and it is something young you did. My body is something I have accomplished over years and years of repeated (if small) effort.