Keep On Truckin'

I've concluded that my mind spends so much time dreading some of the things that I have to do, to the point that the very quality of my life is sapped even when I'm not doing them.  Generally, I have found that the so-called austerities end up not being so bad after all.  One of my problems is that I'm a perpetual thinker.  I have to learn to just do it.  People with strong Virgo influences do tend to think too much.  Stop that Gargs.

At the gym today, the trainer-girl told me that even though I'm working out regularly, I should still try to cut down on my eating a little if I want to lose significant weight.  As I have noticed things leveling off the last few days, I will try to be more mindful and cut down at least a little bit more.  Good luck Gargs.

The good news is I am getting stronger from lifting the weights.  I beat Shyam in arm wrestling today for the first time in about a year.  He had passed me out but now I'm back on top.  I had mixed feelings about it as he is my son.  I want him to do well.  Perhaps, he shold start hitting the gym with me more.  Still, good job Gargs.

I drove up into Georgia today with Purandara.  We stopped at Subway and I ordered only half a sub.  It's Ekadasi today but I did not follow having forgot about it in the morning.  Also, eating potatoes on the road all day is a bit damaging to my health.  Anyway, enough of the excuses and on with my anecdote.   So, when the skinny Indian boy tried to put tomatoes slices with all this seedy green larva on my sandwich, I told him no.  "But they are very good," he said.  "If they are so good, then you eat them," I said.  "Now please give me some healthy-looking tomato slices."

When he tried to give me just a few strands of lettuce, I asked for more.  When he then added only a few more strands, I specifically told him, "Look, put your entire hand into the lettuce and now squeeze, that's it.  Now, lift your hand up like a crane and drop all that lettuce onto my sandwich.  Thank you very much."  He tried to use a mayonnaise-stained knife to push all my fixings better into my sandwich and I clearly told him no.  "I'm a vegetarian," I explained.  "And the knife is tainted."  "I'm a vegetarian too," he said with a smile.  I had a new smiling Indian friend.  Good going Gargs.

The road often feels hard and lonely, even when another person is traveling with me.   The austerities I'm performing, however, are necessary.  There are so many things I'd rather be doing but as John Lennon once said, "There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be.  It's easy."  I need to have the mentality to make the best of each day no matter how distasteful it may seem on the surface.  I have to keep my goals in mind and keep on truckin'. Good thinking Gargs.