Taking the first step

[Exodeus]

Note: This post will probably take me hours to write as my writing skills are very poor (definitely something to work on!)

 

Dear fellow rebels,

 

I'm your average nerd who is 5'9'' with an average build except for the scrawny arms and bulky legs (I do a fair amount of bicycling and running and very little upper-body work). While I don't hate my life, I don't necessarily like it either. My problem is that I have a hard time making decisions; once I've finally made up my mind, I have a hard time starting and sticking with it (at this point I usually begin to question whether it was the right choice and then proceed back to square one to question everything all over again). As such, I rarely ever get anything done and just resort back to browsing the internet (including Nerd Fitness of course) and playing video games.

 

After going through a depression last year and doing a little psychology/Buddhism analysis, I came to realize a couple of things.

Firstly, out of the blue, I started playing my piano again (which I don't think I touched much before then). I also started listening to a lot of instrumental music to help calm me down. So I took a leap of faith (darn assassin's creed) and with much indecision, dropped out of my Computer Sciences program and am now enrolled in an audio engineering program set for this September. I think I made the right choice.

Secondly, it doesn't matter whether it's a computer game or some good old fashioned Dungeons & Dragons, I love Role-Playing games. The issue is that I can never concretely decide on a class. I love little bits and pieces of every class and most games place limitations that prevent class-diversification (or if they did it wouldn't be considered effective by game standards). So instead of getting angry at confined class decisions, I decided to step away from sitting endlessly at a computer monitor and try and be the culmination of classes that my fictional character couldn't be (magic and physics limitations aside).

 

So my level 0 me decided to go out and try the one activity he'd always wanted to try. PARKOUR. In order to keep me motivated and stick with it, I decided to jump in with both feet first and buy a 3 month membership to the only indoor parkour gym I could find in Montreal (thespotmontreal.com). I went for the first time today and probably had the best time of my life.

 

I also finally pushed myself to join the Nerd Fitness community (after initially discovering this site about a year ago). Although I currently have not set any specific goals that I want to accomplish, I at least feel like I've taken a step in the right direction. I will shortly head over to the NF guilds for some suggestions as I want to eventually dabble in a bit of every class.

 

Thank you Nerd Fitness for inspiring me to change my life!

[Grifball]

Welcome! Parkour is awesome stuff; I hope you have a blast with it!

[Thin Guy Majig]

Hi Exodeus,

I'm new here so just introducing myself as much as my post limit allows. Wow there seems to be a lot of interest in parkour these days. Got to agree with Grifball, some of the stuff you see people do is amazing.

I love RPGs. Never did a lot of p'n'p games, but plenty of computer games. A bit addicted to Morrowwind right now. That's what I liked about NF - it seems everyone here likes to have a bit of fun while getting fit and every post I have read is positive!

Good luck on your quest fellow adventurer 😃