gunnermuscle said:
II personally dont care. I wanna be strong,vital, and powerful until I die-and if its from doing this stuff over a period of time, so be it. Im not afraid of dying -only afraid of living timdily, cautiously, and nervously.
Death from steroids? That's a worst case scenario. What really concerns me is the "half ass worst case scenario."
Half ass meaning where you don't die, but you come down with some type of ailment that prevents you from lifting and moving. Being hooked up to a machine, an amputation, or whatever. That in itself for people like you and me might be construed as a fate worse than death.
Man, I always wanta be mobile. If anything happens to my wheels I would out and out freak. I can't fathom being housebound or tethered to a metaphorical post in the ground.
My neighbor who is fit and lean and in his 40's came down with a very debilitating and shocking ailment. It's an ailment in his leg that makes him walk everywhere with a very pronounced limp. Shocking in that the last time I talked to him the ailment was still not diagnosed or attributed to anything and he's had this problem for about a year now. And trust me, his limp is very ugly.
I live in an area of San Diego that has a fairly large volume of pedestrian traffic, on a daily basis. I live in People Watching Paradise. And as such I'm awarded the gift of being able to see people of all shapes, size and age come and go. I learn alot, too much to write about here and now. From the young I learn about where I came from and how I got to be what I am. From the old, I learn about where I'm going.
And I am impressed by the senior citizens who get out of their house and walk, run, or ride their bicycle. And as someone whose had multiple knee surgeries, I realize that wheels, movement and mobility is the number one characteristic I should value the most. You see, I tend to think there are some 70 year olds that can still run and maybe a few who can barely get out of the house. But I might be wrong about that. Maybe 70 years old isn't all that debilitating to the physical senses. Either way, no matter what age I am, I want to be able to get up and go.
The weightlifting thing can get out of hand for some people. I'm reminded of a guy in L.A. who was a fitness fanatic with exceptional genes. He had an exquisite body. I don't know if he was gear-free or not. The article I read stated that he had alot of joint pain, the type that eventually prevented him from lifting. It went on to say that he committed suicide because of all the pain that prevented him from lifting. That much was stated in his suicide note. Like the rest of us, he was a real zealot when it came to lifting. Personally, I have no problem with someone shutting themselves down in much the same way Hunter S. Thompson did.
I kinda think the same way the L.A. guy did, what's the point of living if you can't lift, if you can't ride a bike, if you can't be mobile? Maybe my thinking will someday evolve into a different thought pattern.
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