I’ve recently started keeping an actual journal, and for some reason it’s more therapeutic than just typing out my feelings here, but I guess that’s because of how tiring writing can be. Anyway, the recent Beijing Olympics have been a blast to watch, as usual. There were the occasional bumps in the road of course, but whatever. One Olympian in particular has driven me to push myself to the absolute edge, physically and mentally. Shawn Johnson. For those of you unfamiliar with her (which you shouldn’t be unless you live under a rock.) She is a beautiful, very beautiful (in my opinion) and extremely talented girl. And since seeing her on the Olympics, I haven’t been able to get her out of my head. I’m not a newbie to working out and weightlifting, its just that I often stop for long periods of time. But that was because I had no inspiration.
It’s sort of silly to have a celebrity crush like this or whatever, seeing as I’ll never be able to even lay eyes on her in my lifetime…but it’s not the first time I’ve fallen in love with an impossibility. It seems to be working too, in terms of inspiration for my workouts. Every time I push the weights up I think of her and it just drives me. And no, not just because I think she’s pretty, but because of what she does in the Olympics. She’s absolutely amazing and she’s become my new life inspiration in nearly all of my endeavors. If there was anyway I could ever tell her that in person, I think I’d break down crying. She just…melts my heart. Well, Go team USA! I’m done for now.
