Walked Again, Feeling Amazing

11:04 PM

It was raining outside today, it was dark, and it was sort of cold. I still walked around 10k steps today despite all that, and I feel great. I feel so good. Just fantastic.

I'm listening to Wim Hof's book The Wim Hof Method right now and it is superb. I listened to the book while walking outside, and I would rate it a 10/10. It is about cold immersion therapy and mind over matter. Wim Hof's nickname is The Iceman because he can withstand -30 degrees Celsius of freezing water indefinitely. He can swim in ice waters for hours without wearing any clothing, run around the arctic in shorts, and so on. He built up this ability by swimming in the ice waters every day for over 25 years, enough that he doesn't even feel it anymore, it's just normal to him. Also a cool plus is that he has not eaten any animals since age 13.

Ever since I harmed my face this year, it has really humbled me and made me realize that I am vulnerable, I don't know anything, we are all fools. The Post-Finasteride Syndrome forums, the Accutane Recovery forums, and the Post SSRI Sexual Dysfunction forums, are all interesting to read through because we have been damaged through pharmaceuticals and products advertised to supposedly help us.

I'm talking to a few people now on Reddit who have been damaged by these products, and we are just regular people who "got punched in the face" metaphorically speaking, or some of us even had "our roots chewed on" disabling us entirely. The "punched in the face" metaphor comes from Mike Tyson's quote "everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face," which is true. Everyone has some plan or dream, until wham, a negative incident has struck. The "roots chewed on" metaphor is even more distressing, I think it comes from the book Range or possibly So Good They Can't Ignore You or possibly Outliers, although I don't remember, but basically to become a tree you would have had to grow up without your roots or stem being chewed when you were still growing, I really don't remember where that quote comes from. Maybe even The Slight Edge? All of these are classic books I've read.

The PFS (Post-Finasteride Syndrome) and PSSD (Post-SSRI Sexual Dysfunction) and PAS (Post Accutane Syndrome) people, I think these guys "had their roots chewed", because they are disabled. Their symptoms can vary per person, but for the worst affected people, they can no longer do anything. AD, my friend who has Minoxidil-Induced PFS, can no longer do anything. He cannot even keep up with a conversation because it goes too fast for him. He can no longer do 5 push-ups using his knees down for assistance, without throwing up. He says he threw up after doing 5 push-ups with his knees down, and this is a guy who has been exercising 2-3 hours for a few days a week. He says he used to swim nearly every day. His roots got chewed.

I only got punched in the face. I can probably be down for a year or two, and that is fine. No dating, no socializing, no career advancements, no savings, no progress for me for two years? That's a punch I can take. It's a punch I probably got hit with. My face is still "weird" and still in a recovery phase. I really haven't made any progress at all this year and perhaps took steps back instead. But it's not the end of the world. I am using these volumizing creams and hopefully they can help. If not, I will get Renuva injections. That's really all.

Meanwhile AD is basically crippled. Again he can't even keep up a conversation. He says he can barely even stand up. His skin is melting and has become stretchy, and there's no known cure for his condition, and his condition isn't even recognized as one medically, despite tens of thousands of people being affected and posting about it online. The people online battling this condition, they inject all sorts of things such as steroids, human growth hormones, HCG injections, and lots and lots of random drugs and injections I don't even know the names of like Proviron. Just insane shit. Some of them take like 10-20 drugs and injections, all trying to recover from their condition, spending tens of thousands.

AD says he is basically becoming broke trying all these different treatments. He has worked for nearly 20 years and is spending everything on trying to recover. He only developed PFS a few months ago.

Anyway, why am I even talking about this stuff? It doesn't serve me. I should focus and talk about productive things.

So I got a decent amount of work done today. I can't do all my exercises that I do back in Puerto Rico, here, because I think I am too heavy. My parents do not live in the first floor of a condo, so the people downstairs can hear and feel it if there's too much things going on. So of course I'm not going to run around and do heavy exercises. I can do this in Puerto Rico because I live on the ground floor, but not here. I would have to go outside to do those same exercises here.

Anyway, that was my day today.