well . . .
Bodybuilding bears down on all things that make us human:
our moods, the way we see and experience the world, the
way we think, our changing capacities of energy and will and
imagination, our desires, the gift to create, our determination
to live or die, our expectation of the future, our sanity and
our relationships with the people we love and care about.
And how much money we chose to spend on it affects all these
things . . . mostly in a negative fashion.
We face this precariousness of keeping alive and not broke
(money and health) in the triple conflict between madness,
death and life. You must bend, not break.