05/02/2019
I am HUGE on the promoting the impacts that exercise & #movement have on mental health-and since May is #mentalhealthawareness month-
I’m going to tell you a little story.
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Being a #military family, we move often-and I’m forced to be insanely awkward when I meet people “yeah, yeah yeah nice to meet you- I’m sure your kids are fun-
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Let’s skip the small talk- wanna be my forever friend?” -
That’s not too far off from a couple of conversations I’ve had when moving to a new city. -
About 5-6 years ago, we lived in Oklahoma (my husband was going to a speciality school and one of the places I worked at, was a group fitness facility that offered various group classes ONLY throughout the day.
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It was one of the last classes I was teaching. I announced to everyone that I was leaving. And afterwards (the short mingling time after class) I was telling someone that we were headed to JBLM (Washington state) -
A woman next to me heard me say that- and said “wait! Did you just say WA state? That’s where WE are headed next TOO!” -
We talked for about a half hour and ended up making plans to go out to dinner with our husbands later that week.
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When we MET UP for dinner-
It turned out 🥁🥁🥁
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Our husbands had been sitting NEXT to each other in class for the last 6ish months, but the convo never made it PAST the small talk.
🤷🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️😩
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Fast forward to now and this woman @c_jindrich is one of my forever friends. And if it weren’t for that group fitness class, we would have NEVER met.
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I was reminded of this last night in my class- people were mingling and you would hear a lot of “NO WAY— me too!” Or...”that’s where I live TOO.”
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You see—BEING around people, breathing, sweating, conversing and laughing, brings such a sense of togetherness- that you may not even realize.
Everyone has a story, and when we interact- learn and listen to each other- oftentimes we feel less alone. -
Anyone out there met any forever friends at a community event? Church, book club, in line at an ice cream shop during free cone day? 😂😂😂 PC: @itslexbutler
