We Are Warriors!

I often get asked what drives me to workout and push my body to its physical limits.

Similarly, one could wonder what drives me to learn and to read and to write and blog.

The answer is the same across the board:

I believe that we are warriors. We as human beings are warriors and we are meant to fight and to struggle.

Through millions of years of evolution, we have come to be the organisms that we are today. We, as a species, have struggled to survive long before civilization as we know it began about 3,000 years ago in Babylon.

Without struggle, we are nothing.

A utopian world is a fantasy for a reason. We are not meant to solve every problem. We are not meant to live our lives inside a bubble where we can do no harm and no harm can be done to us.

Tell me, what's the last video game that you played that was about a completely perfect world in which everyone just said nice words to each other and there was no fighting, no conflict, etc etc.?

Or tell me of a story or novel that's interesting without conflicts and resolutions?

You cannot.

We are drawn to conflics and we are drawn to the idea of resolving them. It is in our nature.

Thus, my drive to do what I do - to workout, to read, to write, to learn, to blog - is the very nature of my being: I believe that I am a warrior and I am meant to fight the good fight every single day, physically and intellectually!