Exercising and Mother Abbess Wisdom

Exercising is more mind over body than just body. There's that saying - where the mind goes, the body follows. Like any other achievement in life, exercising needs a combination of will power and effort. And that's easier said than done. It takes nothing short of Mother Abbess' exhortation to 'climb every mountain, search high and low, follow every byway, every path you know...ford every stream' to find a dream that 'will need all the love you can give every day of your life for as long as you live.' 

Granted, it may be a bit dramatic to apply this score to the slightly mundane goal of getting yourself out of bed at six-thirty in the morning to put yourself through an hour-long gruelling workout. And what is gruelling anyway? It's probably just a perception - your mind telling you that your body can't do those sixteen squats asked of you. But hey, isn't the song about overcoming whatever holds you back from getting where you want to be? And if bigger wins start coming your way because of these smaller wins you're trying hard and achieving by being all fired up from a song, what's so wrong about that?

The Sound of Music is one of my favourite-est movies. Growing up, watching this movie on video cassette a million times with family is now one of the loveliest memories I have and makes up one of the best experiences of my life lived. Last evening adds to those memories. It was a peaceful, happy three hours watching the movie for the million-plus-one-th time with Mom. Throughout the movie, I kept grabbing pen and paper because I just had to write down a line spoken here or a lyric sung there that made me go, "I love this!". Each of those lines meant something to me.

Here's that collection:

'I always try to keep faith in my doubts, Sister Berthe.'

'To laugh like a brook as it trips and falls over stones on its way...'

Maria: 'And what's worse, I can't seem to stop saying things. Anything I think and feel.'
Mother Superior: 'Some people would call that honesty.' 

'Well, when anything bothers me and makes me unhappy, I try to think of nice things.'

'The thing to do nowadays is to get along with everyone.'