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Introduction
I got some work to do, so this is a short post (I promise). And, by work - I mean, I have a date with yogaglo. Recently, I find myself defending the way I live my life...a lot. I am asked to defend my behaviors in many places and to many people. It's not uncommon for me to be asked (many days in row):
Why don't you live a little?
You should know, I operated under the assumption that "kindness rules". I swear.
So, I bet you think the title of this post was referring to the defensive stance one might learn in athletics? Nope. Nada. I'm talking about the way I find myself defending my actions to try and live and eat a little sustainable, a lot healthy, and as a way to decrease the amount of time on the earth I have to to be independent and feel good.
To be clear, I don't judge those of you who aren't making the same choices I am making. I don't judge you at all. In fact, I probably like you a lot and find you very interesting. What I will judge, however, is having to defend my choices. If you must know, I will admit that I:
- Spend a lot of time chopping vegetables and cooking.
- Plan meals for the week so that we can live healthily.
- Get up very early to run or workout during nap time so that my kids aren't excuses for me to sweat.
- Walked away from a tenure track job (that I was receiving amazing reviews in) b