What I learned this year (and update news for ATTTP) · 6:30am May 29th, 2014
I am going to attempt to finish the latest chapter tonight (as in after this post), which has almost reached 9000 words. That is only half of the chapter by the way. I was about to release the first half when my editors said it needed more, so now here we are.
Want the too long didn't read for below? Well lets just say Yoga, it cure cancer! ..... No really you'll have to read and not be lazy
If you want to know why I wasn't writing as much in the past or literally before this post, then go ahead and read my ridiculous final paper for beginning yoga class. That's right, yoga. As a senior with hard classes it seemed like a good idea, but how do you write a serious paper about yoga and how it changed your life... You apparently do what is below (in ten minutes). Just thought you might like to read something outside of fiction (PONIES ARE REAL THOUGHT GUYS!).
What I Gained From This Class
Not long before this class I was receiving physical therapy after I was rear ended by a minivan going thirty five miles an hour while I was at a dead stop. While this alone would have given me enough incentive to want to attend a yoga class, I also had been experiencing anxiety from a string of stressful events, which included my car being broken into and three thousand and seven hundred dollars of my stuff was stolen while I was moving back home. A year before that, my bicycle that had over thirty thousand miles including a trip to France with my dad, was stolen from campus. I’m usually a pretty relaxed individual and had finally gotten over this hard strike to my belief in humanity, but then came the car accident mentioned above and me being accused of disobeying a police officer who was directing traffic in a snowstorm. Luckily I was able to dispute that along with my lawyer who said things I shouldn't repeat about stupid cops.
Anyway, let’s just say I was physically and mentally stressed lately and this class probably prevented many headaches and back pain. I admit that at first I was looking for an easy class to counter my upper level classes before I graduate this quarter (I mean what self respecting slacker wouldn't). I looked into more art classes and other physical classes, but then I found my curser hovering over beginning yoga and figured that it might actually help me. I’m a practical young adult and figured that because GIS (geographical information systems) and my computer programming class would have me sitting at a desk with bad posture staring at a screen all day that it might actually help me stay healthy and get me active at least twice a week. I mean I would have ended up looking like Igor the mad scientist assistant or something.
I used to be a lot more flexible and during my fist couple of years at this school. I used to rock climb at the gym all the time, as in every other day or so, but then I got busy and lazy (mostly lazy). I still bike everywhere and when I’m not peddling I’m running (walking just seems slow and old fashioned).
So when you ask me to write what this class has done for me, I tell you it has done more than I expected, and perhaps more than you might have expected from lazy B average fifth year student like me. I've almost gained back my old flexibility I had when I did martial arts and I have started practicing again. This class has probably saved me from looking like a hunchback after all the computer screens I have been staring at all quarter. I just stayed up for 36 hours straight and missed your last class to finish a quarter end project, but guess what I did every few hours? That’s right, yoga right in the middle of the computer lab. There were no windows to witness my sun salutations (maybe not a bad thing) and it got me through my project.
Oh and remember all that mental stress from earlier? Well, after weeks of depression that I couldn't pin the source of, I was in the middle of one of the yoga stretches in class and I thought, “screw being depressed!” That's all it took. Now I’m a pretty spontaneous guy so I don’t know if this was me getting more relaxed from yoga or my usual spontaneity, but it happened in class so I thought I’d add that here. I was questioning at first if all the mystical relaxation song tracks, foamy mats, and relaxation trances were necessary beyond the moves and stretches, but by the end I feel like they helped.
I don’t know what the hay you expected me to write in a two page paper about beginning yoga from an environmental scientist, but this is what you get. Thanks for helping me stay in better shape physically and perhaps mentally.
*Grins* Very cool, you wrote begging yoga at first and confused the heck out of me.
2155795lol. Yay for not proof reading stuff. Also that paper is terrible, but the teacher specifically said there is no grammatical requirement as long as it's readable so I went to town with bad sentence structure and horrible commas.
2156162 But otherwise i wouldn't have gotten such a hilarious mental image
2156879 I have a very serious question. Are you a masked ferret in real life or is that just your favorite animal.
2157436 Um Um, are you a spanner in real life?
I am technically a human being but definitely more ferrety than most. Happily human though.
2157569 It would explain why I got in a car accident. And a lot of other things...
Yoga = a good way to find out that you had muscles you didn't know existed before,.