The more that I am getting into health and fitness, I am coming across people that look at it negatively. They are concerned that myself and others like me are becoming "obsessed". Well, ya know what? Maybe I am, but it's a healthy obsession. A healthy addiction. God gave me my body, my life and my family. I want to be the best me. For myself, for my family and for Him. It has taken a while to accept it but we deserve to be happy and healthy. I used to feel bad thinking of all the less fortunate people in the world, sick and hungry. Along with my existing depression, I felt bad for taking a care of myself, almost as if I was being selfish. I am realizing that in order to help others I have to help myself, I have to be obsessed with myself. It can't be a sometimes thing, it has to be an every day, all the time thing.
I am not talking about being obsessed with my outward appearance or reputation. Being obsessed with myself or being healthy is a good thing. It causes me to eat healthy and exercise everyday. On the days that I take care of me, I stand up straighter, I smile, I am more productive, more organized, it spills over to others around me and I like that. How is that a bad thing? The word obsessed, as defined by Google is to "preoccupy or fill the mind of (someone) continually, intrusively, and to a troubling extent." It doesn't have to be a bad thing, that is why I call it my healthy obsession. According to the Urban dictionary and the definition I prefer for obsessed " Is just a word the lazy use to describe the dedicated." In my opinion, we need to be obsessed, dedicated to ourselves. We need to be the best we can be.
