Showcase April - Thoughts from a bed | Same bed, different topic
It's just a lazy coincidence that my I posted two times from bed this week. A few days ago I was watching a movie, eating pizza and chilling with my k9 force; this time I woke up at 7 am because my feet were aching and because somehow I've been full of energy for the past few days.
That somehow is not a mystery. A month ago I began taking some pills that are fighting a chemical unbalance in my body and for the first time in a little more than a decade - yeah, it took me that long to actually go to the doctor and get diagnosed and then treated - I'm not completely fatigued all the time and my body is asking me to do excercise and be active.
Don't get me wrong, during the past decade and mainly during the past two years that I spent mostly traveling on a budget, I was active and out there exploring but after a few hours out, I always felt like I was carrying a 50kg extra weight and an overwhelming effort to keep exploring, I still did it but now you know how it felt. Now that I got diagnosed it all makes sense. And to think that I thought it was normal to get your battery drained so easily and rapidly everyday.
Well, of course I was meant to wake up with a feet ache, I walked for 5 hours and 20km yesterday instead of taking a 9 dollar Uber haha. But I did it because my body was asking me for exercise, the same excercise just a few months ago I ran away from doing, but did anyway because I knew it was good for me. I mean I'm not a rookie, I'm well aware that Everytime we force our body, we pay the consequences the morning after and I was expecting to be soar and full of pain at least in my lower body.
Well well, I was so wrong it's practically a miracle. Of course I'm hurting but I'm not nearly as bad as I was expecting to be and walking to the bathroom it's not as hard as one would think. I mean, I walked for 5 hours when the previous few days I walked for maybe 20-30 minutes.
In fact I feel great and I want to go out and excercise more once the cold goes away and the Mexican sun reveals itself again. But for now, I'll reveal to you how my Mexican room looks like every morning. This is the look from my bed.
That reminds me about Revelations
How many times do we reveal to the Blockchain exactly who we are? What percentage of your true self do you actually let people read or see here on Steem?
Everyone - and I mean EVERYONE - Browses and engages the chain with a bit of a mask. The social media based on the steem Blockchain provides a platform where news beginnings take place. We can sell ourselves however we want and nobody will judge us because let's face it, it's highly probable that nobody has even met us in real life.
It's like moving to a new city, there are countless behavioral options you can take.
I've spoken about this topic with some Steem people and they all agree on this one: On Steem - like in any other social media platform - we only show the side of us we want people to see. Hell, there's even people who sell a persona or character totally different to what they are in real life.
All of that is great, it's the whole side of anonimity and privacy the Steem chain based platforms provide. We are who we want to be no matter who we are behind the keyboard.
My only concern is, if 95% of your time spent on chain or chain related (Discord or Steem chat) you wear a mask wherever you go, eventually that mask is going to drop for a second - or you're going to slip and show your true self - and you'll show people what you're really looking for here or why do you act the way you act. So my only advice is be real and true to yourself, don't pretend to be something or someone you're not, it all ends up revealing itself in time.
When I'm on the chain, I try to be as real and authentic to my true self as I am in real life but I also can't help to wear a bit of a mask sometimes, which is something I don't really like but I can't help. And you can't help it either, it's easy to try to act as a better version of ourselves when we are behind a keyboard.
Now, I'm not writing all of this thinking of one particular person or a specific situation, I just write where the freewrite style takes me, I listen to it.
Speaking about listening
My dogs just started to bark and fight each other. It's already 8 am and they're hungry. They get loud when they're hungry and they can't really tell the difference between a Saturday morning and a Tuesday, so I have to take my lazy ass - or should I say newly energized and fully driven ass? Oh yeah, sorry, let's not talk about my ass - out of bed and feed them.
It's so funny, lately I've seen some memes on low reputation websites about how wolves evolved into what current dogs are now and I can't help but laugh out loud because let's face it, they're true on every sense.
I'm not citing sources because they're memes, they're property of our society and modern culture owns them now. If you disagree with me, ask all the meme websites. Once you're/make/become a meme, you're property of mainstream society. If you still don't believe me, ask all those people who became memes. Sorry, not really sorry.
What reminded me these memes is that I said "I have to feed my dogs", as if two full size big killing machines should need being fed instead of riding to the horizon and hunting some horses or mammoths. But the truth is they need us, after thousands of years we genetically engineered them to be dependent of us.
So yeah, I gotta go, I need to feed my dogs. Smell ya later. (Got it? Cause dogs smell each other's ass when they meet again. Bad pun? Ok :( ).
This post was originally posted in January 2019 and it's part of my initiative called showcase April, where I'll post the best content I've done over the past three years.
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