I went back to the gym last Saturday.
It’s been a while.
It wasn’t even mostly for health, at least not physical health. I just couldn’t focus on the writing I was trying to work on. My mind kept straying to a particular subject, and though I could pry my attention away from it, I could not enter that meditative state of imagination one needs to in order to write. Every time I tried, I found my attention wholly absorbed by certain ideas.
Well, I made myself do a little workout, and when I got back to my computer, I found that I was better equipped to ignore that particular distraction. Not, let us say, wholly able, but I was no longer wholly overcome either. Still, I found it was a mental battle I was engaged in, and the gym one of the better places for mental healing.
Hopefully, I can make a better habit of exercise.
Hopefully, it will help me write more, if I don’t get sick like I always seem to do.
