If You Want To Live

"Come with me if you want to live." -- Arnold Schwarzenegger in "Terminator 2"

Don't you feel like saying that sometimes to people?

In the supermarket. In the gym. When they're buying over-priced under-producing pieces of exercise equipment at some store. When they're wasting time on non-functional movements or long, slow cardio because someone told them this is how they "should" exercise.

Come with me if you want to live.

If you had more nerve in the supermarket, you might steal the pasta and bread out of their shopping cart when they weren't looking. Block them from entering the cereal aisle. Explain to them that the processed carbs and sugars are killing them softly but surely. Open their Diet Cokes and pour the acid wash all over the linoleum.

Come with me if you want to live.

But you can't do that – or you shouldn't do that. It's not polite and it makes for sticky floors in the Stop & Shop. (And the long, slow cardio is much better than life on the couch.)

Instead, just do your thing. But if they ask how you look the way you do, be ready. Be so ready.