Rebuilding the body, and feeling Tasha Yar

I’ve been fighting off and asthmatic cough for the last couple weeks. This typically shows up around October for me and last through the holidays. So it was a little unusual that I got it at this time of year.

So I went to my doctor last week and was prescribed a steroid in order to reduce the cough. I took my last dose of it Wednesday. It’s one of those packages where you take a little bit less every day to wean you off of it.

also, I returned to the gym on Wednesday for the first time since kid 2 went back to his mom’s on Monday. Tuesday night, I had perhaps the best night of sleep I’ve had in weeks, if not months. I woke up feeling very energetic today, which prompted me to go to the gym.

The thing about exercise is that a good positive attitude can help you power through a lot. I walked into the gym l feeling great. I felt confident. I could tell that I was carrying myself differently. I held my head higher. Several of my sets today, I was pushing personal records on machines; or at least lifting more weight than I had been doing for the last few months.

“Drugs…make you feel good”

I think a lot of this was due to a good mental attitude I had walking in the gym. I am also willing to grant that the prescription I was finishing up also had me feeling better than I have in days. Even after the workout, yes, I was so sore for a little while so: but I felt like I was able to recover faster than normal

The truth is, and I know this is going to sound inappropriate, but I can understand why athletes abuse steroids. They do make you feel good. Even in the minuscule amount I was prescribed for helping kick this cough. I felt great today! I cannot imagine what those heavy duty, anabolic steroids do to the athletes who take them through a needle.

This is why I could never become a drug addict. Or even an alcoholic. It would be too much temptation for me. Just like Tasha Yar says in the Star Trek: The Next Generation clip that I shared above: users get to a point where they don’t care what they have to do in order to feel that high again.

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