Someone’s ever said to you, “I’ve heard your kind of hardcore.”
You’ve heard yourself say, “I try to be laid back”
You return from vacation to work, things don’t piss you off as easily, and you think, “Oh, maybe vacation is useful.”
You work 16 hour days 7 days a week, and think, I can do this forever.
A friend says of someone else, “She runs until she makes herself throw up, can you believe that?!” And you think, I get it, just a little bit. I get it.
You have to train yourself how to relax and enjoy downtime and social situations that have no purpose.
You work out as hard as you can, so that you’re not as hardcore with the people in your life. You’re in a group exercise class and the teacher tells you that you’re going to do Sprint intervals, and as you’re doing them, the other members of the class comment that you’re really sprinting, and you say, “I thought that’s what we were supposed to do”. But then the others pick it up.
You don’t let your kindergartener play outside with friends after school because, “There are things to get done”.
You’ve argued with your high school English teacher to raise your grade from an A- to an A. You don’t read Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mom because you think, “I’m already the most up-tight mom I know.
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