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>>322725
The truth is that my health isn't that bad, apart from having arthritis, but at certain stages I wanted to start exercising again, like right now. Whether I actually do it or only last three days is another matter. But I thank you for helping the Wizards directly and indirectly and for caring about them.

>>322759
>The truth is that my health isn't that bad, apart from having arthritis

i'm ~80% sure arthritis is optional because the body builders get it and their entire painful decline is optional vanity, meaning you probably could get rid of it if you wanted to go to the higher levels of human health.

i should go running more often, i think i have not done it in 2 years but what i do at least 2-3 times a week is skating and i love it and it keeps me healthy.

i believe physical expression (dance, skate, ice skating) gives something to the human organism that is a requirement for a happy life. i can't explain it better yet but when i don't do it for a while and then do it again, it is like i remember that life isn't a chore but actually enjoyable.

>>322759
one more thing i do is i make sure to go grocery shopping on foot and carry it home without wheels. and then i carry it up into the 4th floor without using the elevator.

typical car user steps into the vehicle, drives to get food without walking, uses a cart inside the supermarket without carrying, drives the food home into the car without doing more then a few hundred steps at most.

one other similar habit i have discovered is that i often go places on foot and then just run where i am going. just as a mode of transporting myself. i'm like the only one who is doing it as far as i can tell. people go running but only for exercise, never for transportation. feels nice and adventurous.

i may have posted this once before, this i believe to be the best information on health i have ever stumbled upon.
6min25sec long track from an audiobook about an audiobook about the ancient dao or tao. if i remember this correct dao means 'the way'

i am currently being busy reading Carl Jung and one thing young Carl understood is that people sometimes get sick because that way they have an excuse not to participate in dumb torturous civilizational shit like school.

he called this a neurosis.

young Carl injured his head as a child and for a short while genuinely fainted. he realized this helped him get out of school he unconsciously got into the habit of fainting to get out of shit.

then later when this had already become a convenient habit when he heard his father talk about him being a bitch always fainting and being a retard never being able to earn a living he snapped out of it using his willpower. his body would start to faint but young Carl wasn't gonna have it and he just said nope and refused to faint. dude couldn't handle his father considering him a tard so woke up at 3am to study latin grammer until he got good at it.

amazing story because i encountered subconscious sabotage like that many times in life. imagine trying to be healthy when you have all these neurotic habits. imagine trying to eat healthy but then your body literally cringes you out of eating broccoli because you are addicted to grain-noodles.

reminds me of this meme of a fat middleaged succubi who tried brussel sprouts for the first time and she would dry-heave from smelling vegetables and started crying. i thought of this as psychosomatic behavior but i think neurosis is much clearer of a concept because it includes the knowledge of consciousness.

made a spectacular deal and bought a used e-ink ebook reader for 35€. it was made ~2011 and it is a joy to use! i've wanted one of those ever since the first kindle came out.

i use it to display .txt files, which works flawlessly. i can adjust the text size to my liking and i was even able to change the font to open-dyslexic, which i very much like. i have not even looked at the other fonts, there are probably other nice ones available.

there is this other file format that i don't hate called .epub and besides working similar to a .txt file it can also have pictures in it, which i was surprised to learn that the little device can display. when the epub file has a cover, the cover of what i am currently reading is displayed on the sleep screen; that was a pleasant surprise for me. it may be black and white but it is still plenty detailled!

the display is just pleasant to look at no matter the time of day. at night i can turn on the backlite with the press of one button next to the standby slider. i wish the minimum brightness was just the tiniest bitter lower but it is still ok.

what amazed me the most is using it in the sun. i had no idea how much i was craving a way to use technology in the sun. try using an old laptop in direct warm sunlight, or even just a phone with it's modern display. it sucks! not only will the sun help it to overheat, it requires also for the display to be turned bright all the way to see anything which makes it even hotter and uses more battery.

to sit in direct sunlight with an ebook reader, soaking up the rare few sunrays finding their way through the artificial aluminum-clouds is the answer i have been looking for … for over a decade. for the longest time i had no answer to the question of how i even like to read. it was always uncomfortable. how to read comfortable? with a cheap ebook reader using an e-ink display in the sun. solves 2 problems at once. the problem of how to get more sun and how to even read; i think that's cool.

in other news i've had my last unhealthy food a few days ago and now all i eat is good food no matter how strong the temptation; i've done this before but never with the intend of doing it permanently. after so many temporary experiments i thought it was time. now just a few days later i remembered that my poop no longer stinks and instead spreads the pleasant aroma of fresh vegetable soup. i laughed when i remembered.

i've been eating exceptionally well the last week. basically all i eat is banana, grape, orange, grapefruit, cucumber, bell pepper, raw nuts, fresh herbs and spices. the worst thing i am eating is peanut butter but it is organic and 100% peanut, besides that nothing else but tea and coffee.

when i experienced this clean of a diet for the first time, i was so awe-struck by the amont of energy i suddenly had that it basically just paralysed me into feeling stupid for now knowing how to use it. now i still feel somewhat dumb and unable to wield this much energy but i am getting better at it and i invented something like a timeplanner that helps me use it more but i still feel like a novice.

the hard part is people can tell something is up with me and they feel incredible attracted and want to meet me and act out all the theater and disgraceful non-mutual meeting rituals. i am constantly being entrapped by ugly people who just refuse to care that they don't make me feel like i make them feel. i am a wizzard hermit so i don't like attention and when people give it to me, drop everything they do to stare at me or take video of me like i was a zoo animal, it annoys me so i have to be extra mindful of not displaying any sign of health or strentgh around people and basically pretend i am just a weird looking frail old man even though i feel like a god. the stronger i get, the more of my energy i have to spend in pretending like am weird or i literally can not walk down the street without someone blocking my path hoping i can be their missing puzzle piece.