Tuesday, January 04, 2011

I succumbed to the gay obsession: gym-going.

I was the guy who used to mock gay guys who obsess about their bodies and work out at the gym three or four times a week.  Muscle Marys, or Gym Bunnies, we call them.  But since July, bar the occasional week or two that I was traveling for business or pleasure, I had been exercising at the gym three times a week.  I even had a personal trainer.  There’s still a part of me that loathes the prevalent, superficial body-worship that so rules our subculture today, but another, larger part of me takes pleasure in observing that I have slimmed down, grown some muscle (not a lot), and in general look healthier.  And the occasional compliment about losing weight doesn’t hurt either. A love-hate situation with  myself.  That’s the person I wanted to punch when I took this picture.

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