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<title>Weakness</title>
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<h1>How weak I am</h1>
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<p>You start to realise how pathetic any normal person like us really is when you glance towards the top.
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You see people lifting 200kg or more on their shoulders, hanging effortlessly apparently in defiance of gravity
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off the side of a pole, climbing trees like their ancestral DNA had been fully unlocked, running at breakneck
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pace as though it were a mere footrace; basically, I feel very, very weak in comparison.
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<p>Obviously, it's no surprise that the rank amateur can't compare himself to the masters,
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but it does make me ashamed to think that, with my current level of strength, should a time come
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when it is put to the test, it will most certainly yield to most anyone my better.
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If something were at stake in an altercation, like an encounter with violence, I couldn't do much
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to protect anything. I resolved as I began to make some minor progress that that has to change.
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<p>It's far too arrogant still for me to claim anything of the sort, but they say that as one progresses
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in something, they contrarily realise just how far away they really are from being capable of the very
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best; the more competent, the more humble and reserved, and the more inadequate, the more arrogant.
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In the end, I'm glad at least to have been able to witness, through places like YouTube,
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just how hopelessly far away from the top I am as I am now, and how impossible it likely is
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to make it there. The redeeming silver lining, however, is that that all isn't necessary at all.
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<p>My personal goals revolve around the same notional goal as "calisthenics": to maximise the beauty of the body.
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Again, I must apologise for the grandiosity I seem to be exuding, but my dream is not to stun people in the
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streets with a six-pack of abs or a tanned-up beach bod, but rather to make the most of what the body already has
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inside it; to unlock first of all its strength, and secondly to harness it in synergistic beauty so as to
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control it elegantly and handle it with grace. To be able to walk around with every muscle efficiently
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supporting my gait, and to bend in gentle loci described by a body that's in total control of its movements.
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That's all i really mean. However pretentious that still does sound, though…
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<p>So, even though once I do reach such a stage, it'll be very dubious to claim any level of strength at all,
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I can still be glad that my goal is achieved. Even if unable to master the heights of professional athletics,
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I can still master my own body.
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