Different Strokes
She was a paradigm of leisure, a role-model of laziness.
For her, excess mobility was just a sign of craziness.
She thought the act of exercise simply bore no credence.
In short, in her life, exercises had no antecedents.
She thought that the whole fitness craze was simply a vile plot
within which, in all her wisdom, only she had not been caught.
And so while all her neighbors put their bodies to the test,
she just exercised her option to remain at rest.
Prompt words for the day are mobility, paradigm, credence and plot.
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 
I once knew a surgeon who stated that when he felt the need for exercise coming on he lay down until it passed
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Derrick, that sounds very similar to something Ben Franklin supposedly said.
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Thanks, Lou
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Sounds like a nice well fed lazy cat 🐈 😻
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Ha..
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😃
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But there’s more to the story — what did she think of the alternative, the benefits of exercise?
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Good for her – she exercised her choice.
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There we were couple Novembers ago. Exercising our writing muscles.
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Good eye. Good memory!!!
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Supposedly Neil Armstrong once said “I believe we have a finite number of heartbeats and I’m not going to waste mine running around doing exercises.” Our ancestors would laugh in astonishment at what we do to “stay fit”.
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They were so active that rest was their greatest need once they finished the work of the day.
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