Are you doing laundry?

[flexagon]

Fess up, you probably are. I was in Starbucks today (right next to a laundromat) and heard a woman joking that it's Must Launder Klothes day today. The amusing thing? I was keeping an eye on my watch too, because I had stuff in the washer, at home a few blocks away.

A guy walked up to me in the gym yesterday. "You take this stuff pretty seriously!" says he. "I saw you doing these (miming a front squat)... those hurt!" I basically laughed and said yeah. But I wonder why people say that, and I wonder if it's true. I don't think of myself as taking weightlifting seriously at all -- I don't compete, I don't carefully calculate sets and reps and rest periods for maximum hypertrophy (or maximum anything else), it's all just for pleasure. I happen to have been doing it regularly for 10 years... I figure over that span of time even the most casual person will get stronger and learn a few tricks. On the other hand, I do plan to keep doing it for the rest of my life.

So, what is it to take something seriously? Is it when you feel a lot depends on it? (Note: I am serious about making my mortgage payments.) Is it when you're willing to stake something like your income on it? Is it just when you do it a lot and would be grouchy if you didn't get to do it? Is it when you have goals?

Comments

[a-kosmos.livejournal.com]

It always kind of bothers me when people make comments like that. It's like in high school when people say "oh, you're smart."

[flexagon]

I wish they would still say that. Now they wait a while until eventually I say the name of a GHI* and then they say "you must be smart" like it's a surprise.


*glitzy high-powered institution, see also FGHI.

[apfelsingail.livejournal.com]

Nope. No laundry from me. Recovering from my weekend. Friday night: out until 5 am. No sleep until 7.30 (ask me later). Saturday night: only out until 3 am. Had blood sugar crash, fell over shaking. Me needs sleep. :-)

I would say you take fitness and exercising pretty seriously- you study and perform fitness activities regularly, and you enjoy sharing them. That guy sounds pretty clueless, however.