tegid’s BodyBlog

This is the time of year in the Northern Hemisphere, that is associated with the action of reflection and prediction. Starting something that is positive and taking action - as in new years’ resolutions- is a tradition for this month. January is named after the Roman god Ianus - the god of gates and doors or endings and beginnings.

There have been some very inspiring things written by members in their BodyBlogs, today. I feel slightly humbled by the experience of reading these.. as I don’t have anything like so profound to place in mine.

So, I’ll do what tradition encourages and look back through the past 12 months  and see what I can take from my experiences to make the next 12 months of my life even better.. One of the characters I met last year is one of London’s top therapists and the thing that they said to me that I found profound is the following line:

"When it comes down to simplifying matters, there are really only two reasons why people come to me for help. Either they believe that they can’t love anybody else or they believe that nobody can love them".

As time has gone on, I can appreciate that just about every difficulty that I have faced can be simplified into those categories. Even the most complex of situations can be explained - and then improved -with those two explanations. Others I have shared this information with have said similar things about it. I wanted the people on this website to have access to that information

I have witnessed some astonishingly honest and personal comments from bb.com members, over the past year; regarding their motivation and enjoyment of bodybuilding (that takes courage - something I don’t witness much in the ‘outside’ world).  They accept that they find it difficult to like themselves - physically, intellectually, emotionally or spiritually.  What they share is that they all believe that they can do something positive to improve the situation. They all have hope. They wouldn’t keep doing the exercises or choose the food if they didn’t have hope that they could improve things.

It is that hope - that optimism - that I’ve kept burning at times when my surroundings have wanted it extinguished. That’s what the astonishing friends I’ve made at bb.com have helped me to do - to keep hope alive. And THAT keeps me alive.

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