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maccadoleA couple of things I've been thinking about lately...
I thought about how much we need air, and how stupid it can be. But we don't just walk around breathing to stay alive. There's more to it, obviously
Imagine, if you will, being healthy, active and fit doesn't necessarily mean you'll be a marathon champion. If you can't get air into your system, you're pretty much screwed. You can be however fit you want, but you'll always be insanely restricted.
Like I told my friend:
Lungs are dumb. I want my money back.
When I was younger, and my heart and lung condition came up in a conversation, a guy in my class asked the room at large - is it really that hard? And then he asked me specifically how hard it was. I was at a loss - I couldn't describe it. A teacher then told him to put a straw in his mouth and breathe only through that while making it up the stairs to the level with our classroom. That that might be a close enough likeness.
And you know? I think it might be. Of course it's really hard for me to say, since I don't know how healthy people function. But I know what it's like to breathe through a straw, and I know approximately how much air it cuts off. I also know how insanely tired I get when walking, and how it doesn't seem to bother you healthy people at all. So perhaps cutting off approximately that amount of air would make you tired enough. You should try it.
It's so annoying.
When I'm out traveling I think, hey, at least all the heavy bags will slow them down a bit! BUT THEY NEVER DO! People walk like mad. Healthy people never. ever. seem to get tired. WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE!? Haha, seriously, do you ever get tired? No, not tired. Exhausted! You get tired, sure, and you breathe hard after running up seven flights of stairs. But that's it.
I feel ready to collapse most of the time. Not quite, but almost, and my chest hurts. It's dumb.
I'm even dumber, because I've always sucked at telling people to slow down. It got easier when I grew up, although it does depend some on how well I know the person I'm walking with. But at least I don't have the problem of wanting to fit in as badly, now, as I did when I was a child. I wanted more than anything to ride my bike a mile with the rest of my class, or walk briskly wherever we were going. Instead I was wheeled around everywhere in a stroller, or got to ride in a car with a teacher. (And not a stroller of the baby kind, no. More of a sleek sitting-up thing... I had it up until I was ten, so, no, it wasn't a childish one.)
If I don't say anything, I kick myself for being a dickhead, and I die of exhaustion. But if I DO ask people to have a rest, or generally walk slower, I feel embarrassed. So there's no win.
I can't believe I suck at telling people to slow down.
When I was a kid I was stubborn, now I'm mostly stupid.
Secondly, I am in love.
With Kahlan Amnell. Deeply, madly in love! She is beautiful, charming, so kind, and lovely.
Yes. Yes, I am watching Legend of the Seeker.
At first glance I thought it was dumb, silly, over-the-top, cliché. Then again I watched it on Swedish TV with the dumbest subtitles ever. With translated names, even. So that probably didn't help.
Then I forgot all about it, after five episodes, and months and months later I pick it up again. And I sort of fell in love with it when I hit season two. Before then, probably, but I realized it during season two.
And all the Xena/Hercules cast and crew helped, of course. Hilarious! I love it! I love them! I love Xena! ... And Hercules, fine.
BUT I ONLY HAVE TWO EPISODES TO GO AND I REALLY DON'T WANT IT TO END!
Any Legend of the Seeker fans out there? Help, flist, help! I am dying here.
Now, bbl, Kahlan is calling. So is my tea, before it gets cold.
DFTBA
Mac
I thought about how much we need air, and how stupid it can be. But we don't just walk around breathing to stay alive. There's more to it, obviously
Imagine, if you will, being healthy, active and fit doesn't necessarily mean you'll be a marathon champion. If you can't get air into your system, you're pretty much screwed. You can be however fit you want, but you'll always be insanely restricted.
Like I told my friend:
Lungs are dumb. I want my money back.
When I was younger, and my heart and lung condition came up in a conversation, a guy in my class asked the room at large - is it really that hard? And then he asked me specifically how hard it was. I was at a loss - I couldn't describe it. A teacher then told him to put a straw in his mouth and breathe only through that while making it up the stairs to the level with our classroom. That that might be a close enough likeness.
And you know? I think it might be. Of course it's really hard for me to say, since I don't know how healthy people function. But I know what it's like to breathe through a straw, and I know approximately how much air it cuts off. I also know how insanely tired I get when walking, and how it doesn't seem to bother you healthy people at all. So perhaps cutting off approximately that amount of air would make you tired enough. You should try it.
It's so annoying.
When I'm out traveling I think, hey, at least all the heavy bags will slow them down a bit! BUT THEY NEVER DO! People walk like mad. Healthy people never. ever. seem to get tired. WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE!? Haha, seriously, do you ever get tired? No, not tired. Exhausted! You get tired, sure, and you breathe hard after running up seven flights of stairs. But that's it.
I feel ready to collapse most of the time. Not quite, but almost, and my chest hurts. It's dumb.
I'm even dumber, because I've always sucked at telling people to slow down. It got easier when I grew up, although it does depend some on how well I know the person I'm walking with. But at least I don't have the problem of wanting to fit in as badly, now, as I did when I was a child. I wanted more than anything to ride my bike a mile with the rest of my class, or walk briskly wherever we were going. Instead I was wheeled around everywhere in a stroller, or got to ride in a car with a teacher. (And not a stroller of the baby kind, no. More of a sleek sitting-up thing... I had it up until I was ten, so, no, it wasn't a childish one.)
If I don't say anything, I kick myself for being a dickhead, and I die of exhaustion. But if I DO ask people to have a rest, or generally walk slower, I feel embarrassed. So there's no win.
I can't believe I suck at telling people to slow down.
When I was a kid I was stubborn, now I'm mostly stupid.
Secondly, I am in love.
With Kahlan Amnell. Deeply, madly in love! She is beautiful, charming, so kind, and lovely.
Yes. Yes, I am watching Legend of the Seeker.
At first glance I thought it was dumb, silly, over-the-top, cliché. Then again I watched it on Swedish TV with the dumbest subtitles ever. With translated names, even. So that probably didn't help.
Then I forgot all about it, after five episodes, and months and months later I pick it up again. And I sort of fell in love with it when I hit season two. Before then, probably, but I realized it during season two.
And all the Xena/Hercules cast and crew helped, of course. Hilarious! I love it! I love them! I love Xena! ... And Hercules, fine.
BUT I ONLY HAVE TWO EPISODES TO GO AND I REALLY DON'T WANT IT TO END!
Any Legend of the Seeker fans out there? Help, flist, help! I am dying here.
Now, bbl, Kahlan is calling. So is my tea, before it gets cold.
DFTBA
Mac
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Date: 2011-02-24 12:02 pm (UTC)Mhm, that's right. I've had people ask me that before. But no one involved in the medical community has ever mentioned that option to me, so I don't know. It'd probably not be worth it. If better lungs would fit in the chaos that is my body I'd have to take drugs all my life and it's very risky, I assume. So I'd have other problems anyway. Better to leave it the way it is, especially since I have my back problem, too.
I should simply work out more and try to stay on top of things. Do the best I can, and the rest is something I'll have to live with. :)
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Date: 2011-02-24 12:13 pm (UTC)