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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do you feel like you are better than everyone because you are fit?[/quote]

Better as an overall human being?  Of course not. There are plenty of out of shape people who are smarter, or wiser, or funnier, or more compassionate than I.  There are some who labor under conditions that would break me.  You never know what people are dealing with.

You know who I do feel morally superior to? My old fat self, because they were weak, undisciplined, irresponsible with the health of this body we both share, and in my case there was zero excuse. Life is better and more fun when you are strong, and every hour I have invested on the road or in the gym has repaid me tenfold with a better quality of life. If my past self had their act together I would have gotten a better life, and while I understand some of the issues and lack of knowledge that led there, which certainly contributed to the situation, at the end of the day it was an utterly unjustifiable moral failure and a failure of discipline.  That’s my truth, and it is true.  I am straight-up morally superior to that person.  A better human being in every way.

As to others who are in a similar to state that I was? I feel a lot of empathy; for most of them their situation could be greatly improved and they would be happier if it was.  Obviously you can’t tell people this, but I do wish someone had shaken me by the neck when things were starting to get bad and said “you don’t have to live this way.”  But I don’t judge or feel contempt, because I know how easy it is to go to that place and how no one is willing to tell you that you need to make a change.  It’s super easy into denial about one’s situation, ask me know I know.   It’s also true that people are animals and there is a hierarchy of attractiveness; people treat you differently when you move up it, even if you’re not on the market or anything.  And also, you can’t help but notice who would be a liability if physical safety becomes an issue; at the margin stronger is better than weak, and so I, like basically everyone else, is of course more interested in and drawn to people that have their physical act together.  But that’s a marginal effect.  I have overweight friends for whom I feel nothing but love and respect; literally obese colleagues who are straight-up assassins in our chosen field whose skills i envy,etc.  [/quote]

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