So I felt like shit today and was coming up with all sorts of excuses as to why I shouldn't workout, despite the equipment being 15 feet away in my garage. So I went to the subreddit GetMotivated and came across this response to someone who had spent most of their 20s sick:

Your situation is a perfect example of how our lives are absolutely not under our control.

Another exampke, ehere i get no sympathy at all is my amxiwty and addiction problems. I've been assaulted 9 times because my parents insisted on living in a poor area. I now have extreme anxiety issues when on my own outside. After dropping to a bmi of 18, developing cataracts and stress induced diabetes and a severe concussion after going into shock when accosted coming home from uni, I was put on sedatives. I am now addicted to sedatives and get extreme anxiety in all situations when off them.

The anxiety is so severe I visibly age and develop stress induced diabetes in a matter of weeks. My sky rocketing cortisol thins my skin and organs while packing visceral fat on. I'm constantly fighting just not to have brain fog. Sedatives make me lethargic ally foggy. But the anxiety gives me metabolic syndrome and insulin resistance brain fog.

And no one cares. People think I'm a junky. I look ten years older than I am despite living an obsessively clean life just to stay barely functioning.

My sympathy for even the violent, angry people who attacked me? Has increased d4ammatically. I understand how badly your body can be damaged and how disadvantaged and angry that can make you. I understand essentially no one who goes to harvard or yale got anything but lucky. Being in a situation where you have the health and wellbeing to study and prosper is luck. Even just having the self knowledge that it can be done is luck.

It's all luck. If you're in a situation where the only thing truly holding you back is laziness, you're one of the luckiest people alive. And the unluckiest, because regardless of who's fault it is, you still clearly have a huge psychological problem if you're giving up happiness and prosperity to lie around and do nothing.

Think about that for a second. If you're here, actively seeking out knowledge AND have the means to put that knowledge to use then you are extremely lucky. Luckier than most humans who have ever walked this earth.

I see a lot of bullshit and self pity on here, crying about inconsequential bullshit. "Oh no, I'm 5'7 and my face is slightly asymetrical. I really got screwed by the genetic lottery" or "My shoulders are only 18 inches across, no wonder no woman will ever love me".

If you're here, reading this on your phone or computer with a roof over your head, you're extremely fortunate. So take control of your life. If you have the means to better yourself then fucking do it. And stop crying because others have it better. You have it pretty fucking good yourself.