Life, Fitness, and General Sillyness

This is going to go down a different avenue than my blogs normally pursue. In general I stick to fitness and life on the whole, but I'm going to hit a different path today and talk about relationships (friendships or dating). I have always been an extremely nice, outgoing, trusting person. Ask my parents. As a little kid I would wander up to any stranger and talk to them, and I had no qualms going up to any strange dog and offering it my face with the pure, blind trust of the innocent little kid I was. While I got wiser with age in terms of realizing talking to strangers isn't always a great plan and some dogs WOULD happily eat me for dinner, I continued carrying the naivete of "Because I operate this way, everyone must operate this way" well into my adulthood. The golden rule is something I have always intrinsically and instinctively lived by. I don't think this is a bad thing for the mostpart, but that is not to say that it hasn't hindered me numerous ...

I get emails and texts from all kinds of people going through different life things. They're usually not fun life things, either. They can range from dealing with breakups to being frustrated with life in general. Hey, it happens to everyone. These things happen to me too! As you get older (and hopefully wiser), you notice patterns and seasons in your life that are as regular as the changing leaves. For me, I know I tend to fall into a bit of a depression this time of year. I tend to curb it with goal setting and striving for something larger in my life to get me through the winter. I've learned this about myself. It took some time but I have solved the problem on my own. Many people haven't learned this skill yet. It takes some serious self-reflection and dealing with parts of yourself that you don't care to admit out loud. Avoiding these things, however, is detrimental to your growth and your overall health. What results is generally a life of chaos and low expect...