Mike Corey Instagram – We cling on to our bodies and call them temples.
We treat them like fine China, and place them on mantle. To admire, but never touch. Too precious to actually use. Its purpose unfulfilled.
Let me tell you something. Your body is not a temple. Your body is a weapon. A weapon of mass adaptation. Capable of great things if it’s used, and it will easily forget if it’s not.
3 million years of evolution gave us a regenerating supercomputer, able to change itself to into whatever it needs to be. Faster, stronger or smarter… your mind will recognize the patters., your muscles strengthen and quicken, Your skin will callous and toughen for the task.
We are made to endure the bumps and scratches, ink, scars and holes.
They are lessons. Not just to remind our mind, but to remind our body of what it is capable of. Of what it can do when it is challenged.
Not wrecking it is a waste of its purpose.
Not beating it up makes it forgetful.
It becomes brittle and frail.
I don’t think I could ever trust anyone without a few good scars. What life have they lived? What grand adventures have they had? We confuse wisdom, thinking it’s earned with time. Wisdom is earned through experience, especially the painful ones.
Humans learn best when it hurts.
And honestly… this did hurt like a b*tch. 🐉
Photo by @bmcreative.video
Trip by @the_vigillant
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