What Goes Around

Last week I joined a gym.  This is also a cultural experience.  The last gym I went to was Fitness Circle, which I owned and operated.  Since then I have taught aerobics out of my home, done P90X, and now Focus T25.  I'm not a newbie to exercise.  So the first day at this new gym, which is a ladies only gym but only has male trainers, I picked up some weights to work my arms.  The trainer dude came over and told me to stop what I was doing and he handed me different weights and demonstrated how to do bicep curls.  So I did that.  Then after I did his bicep curls, I started some other arm work.  Before I even got to 5 of whatever I was doing, he was back telling me to stop, taking my weights away, giving me different ones, and having me do a new exercise.  So I decided to pretend I knew nothing.  I told myself I could probably learn some new stuff and from then on I only did exactly what he said.  After each exercise I went up ...

I was suppose to write a scene with a woman who had just ended her love affair and a trip to the grocery store.  250 words.  I didn't read the assignment very well and my scene is of a woman who had a bad day at work and is at a grocery store.  The idea is to have the atmosphere help frame the feeling of the mood.  Enjoy!  (and any advice or comments are appreciated) Bethany was glad to be headed home after a rough day at work.  It seemed everyone was in a rotten mood.  She needed to pick up some groceries on her way home.  Something quick and easy.  As luck would have it, the grocery store was packed with people all seeming in a hurry like she was.  The flickering florescent lights must have made everyone crazy.  Bethany pushed her unruly cart down the frozen food aisle.  Two carts stopped side by side blocked her path to the frozen meals.  She sighed a bit too loud and the young mother with the cart in front...

I've been reading and thinking about the bakery that wouldn't make the wedding cake for the gay couple and now she is being sued.  I was thinking about how I get discriminated against often and I haven't made a big enough deal out of it. Many times when I am trying to get an auto rickshaw to take me home from the mall, they refuse me.  They refuse me because they don't want to come to my area.  I have been too understanding.  I understood that they don't like IGNOU Rd.  It often has traffic jams and it is quite bumpy.  But, how dare they refuse me!  They don't have a right to discriminate against me just because I live in this area! I've been looking at my situation all wrong.  What I do is just feel bad for a second that the guy won't take me and then I look for another one that will.  Instead I should attack the driver and destroy his auto for not taking me.  He has made me feel shame about where I live.  I deserve the same r...

Today I, along with my dad and son and his friend, went and helped out at a home for kids.  We were trying to fix the place up a bit.  Painting the walls, installing fans, and moving light fixtures up higher.  It felt good to do some service.  I know that it would have probably been easier and maybe better to hire local painters and electricians, but in a way this was a chance for us to feel good.  And maybe the kids and the people who run the home need to be encouraged that they aren't alone in the work.  We are wanting to help and this seems to be the only way we feel we can get involved.  Sometimes doing something is more important then just giving money.