i am gifted

i am gifted with a body. it used to be flabby and weak. now it is less so. i have all my limbs and extremities, my original set of organs, and no major injuries. as such, i use my body. more on this later.

i am gifted with a mind. i have mental talents. my ironic sense of false humility prevents me from listing them. suffice it to say, i have some. some are rare. some are not. some are well developed. some are not. i use my mind. more on this now.

i use my mind and body because i have them. if there is a Creator, my worship of Him consists of using the gifts with which He has blessed me.

if there is no Creator, still, i choose to not neglect myself. to neglect myself is a shameless waste. i view what i have as precious, and i am tremendously thankful that i am still intact. i manifest my gratitude by not neglecting the objects of my thankfulness. i realize that over time, i'll more or less fall apart, so i ought to use and enjoy what i've got while i still have it.

this is a relatively new realization.

by using my mind and body, i develop them. as one develops, so does the other.

this is a relatively new realization.

in the hoary, distant past, i did not have these attitudes. i let my body - and, to be honest, my mind - go to poo, to waste, to disrepair. i paid for my neglect with misery and malfunction, of both the mind and the body. when i realized my mistake, i took steps to remedy it, and i remain still on the proper path, much longer than the national averages, for whatever that's worth.

aside from the religious/bs/metaphysical justifications, mind-body tinkering is just plain fun. i program computers for a living, and as a hobby before that. what more fascinating computer is there than the human mind? what more complex and satisfying machine is there than the human body?

/me out