This morning I went down the street to go to this class.

It's basically 45 minutes of body circuits in a heated room, which I love.

I love mixing that in with the running that I do.

And basically the thing kicks off.

And somewhere in, you know, maybe the last third of the class, we were doing some weighted squats.

And right at that point where, you know, you're in the thick of things, your legs start to burn.

Heart rate's elevated.

You can start to, you know, really feel the temperature of the room.

The instructor said something that I thought was absolutely incredible.

She goes, and I'm paraphrasing, the discomfort that you feel right now is a privilege.

It's a privilege to suffer through this. It's a privilege to be here working

on yourself when most people are at home. It's a privilege to be in a position to move through

the resistance you feel right now. And that message moved me.

And how can you even think about discomfort

after that perspective had been laid out?

How can you see a few minutes of fatigue

as anything other than the small price of improvement?

It's funny how the same things we consider to be torture or punishment, if they're externally required of us,

they become empowering when we know that we deliberately chose them.

You know, in this feeling, it was definitely self-induced.

It was chosen, right?

I decided to be there in class that day.

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