Hello again, second post of the day, because this one has been on my mind for a bit so here it goes.

So I've pretty much been semi-retired for about 18 months now. I'll be going back to LA for a break and keep moving forward with whatever the next mission.

So far, for the last six months I've been in Thailand, and visited Vietnam twice, hiding out, making music, art and working out at the park. So basically getting buff and being creative.

I am in Bangkok, staying with a buddy of mine, whom I met in Tokyo back in 2011. I he invited me out last year after I quit my job. Stayed foe two weeks, decided to sell the house and give Bangkok a shot. Fast forward this Past June it happened and been in the 2nd room of a house he rents in a chill neighborhood close to a bunch of cool stuff.

I get to walk around and basically get high and enjoy Bangkok by foot as much as I can. People all around me, of various ages and social classes. And one thing I have noticed how easily it is to tell what people are doing with their lives.

Getting back into Marine Corps shape and then some was my priority in this trip, so now that I have time to get buff, I am living the fantasy: I wish I could just focus on working out. Missions accomplished.

It's been a wild ride from starting out and not knowing what I am doing, to the present, where I have a structured workout and change it or adapt it every two weeks. I read up about how the muscles work on wikipedia and start to get a better understanding their functions and how it adapts or how the body uses it, etc. Learning about my body has allowed me to actually use my body to use, and overcome the bullshit excuses that I employed in the past. Once you know something you cannot unlearn it. I also want to live until i am 120, so moving forward with my life at 41, getting old is an actual thing I have to worry about. I look back when i was 21, and it was never a worry. I had a hot young Filipina girlfriend whom I was dating since she was 17, me 19, and I was on team FUCK THE OLD. I was invincible. Not so much anymore. Lucky I had high school sports and the marines to get me in shape then, but since my early 30's, I was on the path of being a depressed son a bitch who used alcohol as an excuse to feel sorry for myself. It was not a good look, and even though I still exercised while I worked, it was all half assed and I was eating JUNK. There would be days I didn't give a fuck, I would get high, and order Pizza Man Dan's famous Calzone with Mozeralla sticks, or the spicy hot wings, and they also delivered beer so I would get a six pack of Shock Top. Why not? I was making 85k a year from my job as a teacher, getting $1500 from my VA pension, which is currently now $3000. I had money to be a lazy fat fuck who could live the party lifestyle and hide in my house with my big ass 110" 4k brand new projector. I could hide and work on my projects and paint and PRETEND everything was all right. But now, looking back at pictures of myself, I cringe.

It is so disappointing to even read comments that read LIFTING ISN'T FOR ME, or to that effect.

LIFTING isn't for you. It's for your BODY.

Getting older and having time for introspection since nothing else but me and only me is on my mind, I can just get high and look around me and soak in my environments. On my walk to the park to workout, I encounter people along the way, young, old, all sizes. There are also a lot of steep ass stairs on the bridges that take you across highways or main roads, so everybody is walking. There are cabs and cars are for the middle class, but the city is for EVERYONE.

So I share the streets with old people, and I notice, not all old people are created equally. On one extreme, you have a generally fit dude, chest out no belly, no really bald, but happy, energetic, well fitting clothes.

Then on the other end, you have men who are barely limping along, but what choice do they have? They have to work; here is where it gets interesting. There are a lot of workers on the job, construction sites for example, and there is a lot of lallygagging going on in these jobs, especially on the off hours. Guess what this new batch of future old guys who can barely limp along are doing? On times where they kinda just have to be there, they are just looking at their phones, looking down, sitting down.

Our bodies weren't meant to adapt to our wants or desires or needs or our artificially constructed surroundings with no regards to our bodies other than comfort

In America, is nothing but Disneyland. Yea, shit is fucked up all around, but the danger or the threat of anything crazy is no where near the level of the really fucked up 3rd world. At least not yet. But my point is that there isn't anything going on to get the kids outside, entertainment is on the phone or consoles, and free cheap sex is available for the young depressed guys, and being a slut online is a nice way to make easy money on the side without anyone knowing what is going on. This is the world we live in, just to provide some context for my point.

Our bodies were made to expand energy and look beautiful.

The Greeks , Romans and other earlier civilizations made statues of ideal beautiful bodies. Fat fucks Existed, but they weren't celebrated like the athletes in the Olympic games and other events they held. Even the great Greek philosophers recognized the concept what separates humans from beasts, and the idea of chasing a life of virtue, and also being a fucking man and making your body as strong as possible. Socrates believed a man should be strong enough to fight for his city. At that time, that was a real threat. Civilizations all thrived on that model up until recently. World War II I would say was the last crazy war because of the scale of people that died. But even in years before then, as long as civilizations were clashing, people were fucking dying, so there had been only a few families that make it that can trace their lineage directly. Most of us probably come from families that don't know jack shit.

My point is this, no one is dying, cities are getting fuller, we don't need to hunt for food, food is calorie dense, and it comes to you.

We are descendants of all these warrior class societies. WE ARE DESCENDANTS OF WINNERS. All of us. Wether you are white, black, brown, Jew, all our descendants paid a price, one way or another, for this Civilization to exist as we know it know. People have literally died before us, and the ones alive are the winners. And some of us are even descendants of generals or other important people that at one point had to feed a tribe, or fight for it.

At this point in history moving forward, our society is so arficial interns of what we were made from, our bodies are MALADAPTING to our artificial environments.

Even worse, the younger the generation, the more NORMAL it becomes. They have never experienced a live of life or death.

Ive been all over the world, including South America and Europe , and even got to see the NOW RUINED Athens, Greece. Disgrace what happened.

That city had a head start, and what was once great and mighty, they couldn't keep it up. Even now! America picked up the football 1776, and there was no turning back. What we have forgotten, is our American heritage, wether you come from America or not, even if you live there. That country exists because of all this cool crazy shit that was going on even though BAD shit was going in as well. The people founding a new country understandably get paranoid at change because it literally went from a one horse town to the literal future. The future exists if you could afford to have it, and live where it exists.

So people are going to do crazy shit, is my point, and a lot of crazy shit is happening.

Like boys can be girls, girls can get the government to pay for sex change in the military and become boys, being fat is HEALTHY and body image is something we made up, neckbeards thinking sex dolls are normal because fuck what everybody else thinks, but they are they fucking crazy ones because we live in a world were we aren't really adapted to function properly.

MEN and WOMEN also believe that no one can tell them what to do, even though they are descendants of tribal people, and that eating junk food all the time and not exercising because fuck you you are a NAZI if you tell him what to do,

We live in a world where you are crazy if you tell people to exercise and lift and eat right and there is no excuse

Never mind that we come from a country where historically people were told what to do, sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn't, but never as bad as people doing whatever they want to do with disregard to how we are living and how environments are disrupting the main functions of our bodies. A lot of the maladapted out there literally have no concept of what exercise, REAL EXERCISE is because they haven't been in an environment that has needed it, or worse, she is in an environment where it is OPTIONAL. There are always those kids that sit out at recess/lunch time, and as a former school teacher, it seemed like a hell of a lot more than when I was a kid. Shit, they would make after school specials about that kid. Whenever we had a new kid, we were excited. We made sure that kid wasn't left out, and if there were some kids are lunch, it was a few, and at the time, teachers weren't afraid to get close to the kids and play with them.

I got a taste of having that environment where adults interact with the kids and make sure they get what they gotta do, but something has happened since when I was a kid and now, where listening to the adults is kinda of OPTIONAL, or that they get to dictate how to get through school. Also, the leadership has gone down, and it's because they are descendants probably of permissive parts or single parent households or very sympathetic well meaning adults who came from very good homes and sympathize with lazy fuck all kids who know how to play the victim card quick.

So no one is telling kids what to do. My best teachers were MALE. They played kickball and dodge ball with us and the FEMALES played mom, but strong balance. MALE Principal. TOUGH. Mr. Mrstk. Alpha Male. He reminded me of human. Tall, built like a tank. And he was nice to my family. I was an out of control kid, they soon found out I loved art, he got me into the GATE program, the rest is history. This guy made it happen. Solid Principal for me and my family, little brothers and sister, parents still remember him.

The principal I left when I left my job wanted to suck every transgendered dick on campus and we went from a dress code school when I first started, disciplined, to ending up with bullshit clubs, marijuana assemblies, gay people coming over, etc, etc, more permissive haircuts for these FAGGOTS, more "acceptable" attire, etc, etc, etc

Quality went down, complaints for me went up, but no problem at least the principal had my back, but I had to town down the BAD COP. And the GOOD COP is awesome in my class. But then the quality of students over the years , with their parents wanting requests or bullshit on why they need easy homework, or worse, the parents don't care what the kid does as long as he don't get on trouble but he can barely read and shit, like, those kind of kids.

I wish I could have said over the intercom chips and sodas are banned from the school cuz you are getting fat, but the principal would tell me I am discriminating because of different culture expectations and shit like that, so kids bring chips and sodas and eating it! Getting fat.

And moving on to P.E. Lets be real. No one fails in high school. Otherwise a lot of kids would be stuck in my school: MIDDLE SCHOOL.

THEY AREN'T GOING TO HOLD BACK ANYBODY IF THEY CHOOSE NOT TO GO THROUGH P.E. AND AT LEST TRY

These kids pick up quick. And no one is saying shit. Teachers will get fired for making the principal's life difficult. Or at least put on the radar. But the adults running the schools are retarded.

So guess who raised these clueless fucks who shit on lifting or try to rationalize their pussy reason on why lifting isn't good for you or their pussy bullshit reasons?

FUCK YOU, GO LIFT