🎄 In 2024, I thought a lot about muscles
A flexed bicep, to me, is as symbolic of manliness as a moustache or calloused hands. It represents hard work – a ritualistic tearing of muscle in the name of growth.
What started as trying to undo the beer and takeaways of my twenties has turned into a deep respect for my body. Acknowledgment how it can synthesise lifting something up and putting it back down, over and over, into resilience and peace. I feel happier, more capable, and for the first time in my life I don’t hate what I see in the mirror.
But body building is inherently masculine – rightly or wrongly – and so therefore absolutely and entirely binned.
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