Content or Lazy?

Please don't mistake my contentedness for Lazyness.  Sure I don't work out 7 times a week, I don't get out every evening and hang out with friends, or play tennis, or hopscotch.  I don't always feel the need to go shopping for new clothes when I really need them, I don't always do my laundry when it is necessary either. This is what happens when you start getting older. You become more comfortable in who you are, you become more relaxed, less on-edge, keyed-down, mellow.

Sure, I used to workout all the time, I ate healthy, I worked a full time job, I went to school full time while working full time and I still worked out all the flippin time- and I was good at it.  I had a great body, friends in droves, money, a nice car, a plethora of things to do, but there were times when I was miserable.  I used to have emotional problems- emotional highs and lows, some might say an emotional rollercoaster.  Most of the time I was way up, but when I came down, I came down hard and most of the time I hid it pretty well.

Now I rarely workout, I eat what I want, I read a whole lot, I chill and relax and I am loving it.  Like I said in earlier posts, I cherish this time because I know it is only temporary.  So why am I writing about this? Well let me tell you...

I have a couple of friends that are new friends.  All of my older friends know who I am and they don't try to change me, but the new friends are constantly asking me to work out, or to hang out, or to do something out when I really just want to stay in.

These same friends seem to have a problem not just with my contentedness, but with anyone who is so content that they have put on a few pounds.  Hey, it's the American dream- leave me alone and stop complaining about everyone else, let them live their freaking lives.  If they want to eat themselves into an early grave, then let them.  You can't change people.  No amount of badgering is going to help the situation.  My advice is that if someone tells you that they are on a diet, then encourage them.  Cheer them on, otherwise, keep your fat mouth shut!

Here lately I tire of hearing people complain about politics, Iraq, West Nile, reality tv, etc.  I want people to chill out and stop telling me their opinions on the matter, I want them to stop hearing other peoples ideas and regurgitating them, I want people to stop jumping on a bandwagon just because Ben Affleck is doing it.  And most of all, I want people to do something about it, or shut up about it. If you don't like George Bush, then don't vote for him, just don't try to change my mind, I am an adult, I can read, I can make an intelligent decision for myself- and if I can't I will ask a few people I admire and respect to help me out on the issues.

I haven't had a good tirade on here for a while, I just needed to vent because this week a couple of people have T/O'd me because they don't know when to stop talking.