Source https://www.nerdfitness.com/blog/6-real-life-superhero-origin-stories-from-our-community/
“I wanna be a strong princess, like Wonder Woman!”
“I wanna be able to run really fast, like the Flash!”
“I wanna climb all the monkey bars like Tarzan! ”
“I should lose a few pounds off my love handles.”
One of these things is not like the others…
When we’re little kids, we swing from monkey bars and run up multiple flights of stairs and climb trees and chase imaginary bad guys and crawl through mud and we love every second of it.
We try new things because they seem fun (and nobody is telling us that we can’t). Or, we try new things specifically because we’re told we can’t!
We never once think “oh I wonder if my body is capable of such a thing….” We just DO. We fall down and pick ourselves back up and laugh it off and each day learn more and more about how we interact with the world around us. It’s awesome. And fun.But then…over the next 15-20 years, life happens.
Schoolwork. A job. Chores. Bills. Mortgage. Responsibilities. Kids! Late nights at the office. More and more meals from a drive through window.
As our responsibilities (and the scale) goes h…
Source https://www.nerdfitness.com/blog/6-real-life-superhero-origin-stories-from-our-community/
“I wanna be a strong princess, like Wonder Woman!”
“I wanna be able to run really fast, like the Flash!”
“I wanna climb all the monkey bars like Tarzan! ”
“I should lose a few pounds off my love handles.”
One of these things is not like the others…
When we’re little kids, we swing from monkey bars and run up multiple flights of stairs and climb trees and chase imaginary bad guys and crawl through mud and we love every second of it.
We try new things because they seem fun (and nobody is telling us that we can’t). Or, we try new things specifically because we’re told we can’t!
We never once think “oh I wonder if my body is capable of such a thing….” We just DO. We fall down and pick ourselves back up and laugh it off and each day learn more and more about how we interact with the world around us. It’s awesome. And fun.But then…over the next 15-20 years, life happens.
Schoolwork. A job. Chores. Bills. Mortgage. Responsibilities. Kids! Late nights at the office. More and more meals from a drive through window.
As our responsibilities (and the scale) goes h…
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