I was talking to CJ at length yesterday and she said some things that got me thinking. She shared with me how she's keeping to a diet and exercise that she might lose more weight, because her ideal woman is magazine-model slim. She explained that every woman's ideal woman-to-be is different; whilst other women value intelligence and seeks to increase their knowledge to be the ideal woman in her mind, her ideal woman is of that physical build and hence she has no qualms about working towards it. Just as how some women value and appreciate her curves, she values and appreciates "petite", even if it might mean being "flatter".
I think it's fine to love gyming. i do. I think it's fine to gym towards an ideal body type. i do hope to achieve that. But i'm hesitant to say that it's a purposeful purpose in life. A fantastic and healthy body is an important subset of living here on earth now (because it is the temple of the Holy Spirit), but it cannot be the basis for day-to-day living, because this body we have is only temporary. I shudder to think that before the throne when Jesus asks me what i did with my time here on earth as His child i would to say "eh, i diet-ed, worked and gymed". How different would i be from people who don't know Him? How am i to reflect His Glory and be His light and salt when all i am preoccupied with my cocooned existence?