My liege, his railing is intolerable:
If those that care to keep your royal person
From treason’s secret knife and traitors’ rage
Be thus upbraided, chid, and rated at,
And the offender granted scope of speech,
‘Twill make them cool in zeal unto your Grace.
-Cardinal Beaufort
King Henry the Sixth Part II
Act III, Scene i, Line 174
Okay, today’s actual line was From treason’s secret knife and
traitors’ rage, but that’s part of a pretty long sentence so I gave you
the whole thing. No need to thank me.
I suppose that treason being what it is, its knife
would be secret, wouldn’t it. That’s a rhetorical question; no need to answer.
But it’s a pretty good segue into a rant. Here we go.
I’ve recently topped two hundred and forty pounds on the
scale. Now I’m over six feet tall, so I can carry a few extra pounds reasonably well;
but not two hundred and forty of them. So here’s the thing: I know that I’ve
gained over twenty of these pounds in the last five years, whereas I had been
at a pretty steady weight before that. So I had to ask myself, ‘self, what’s
changed in the past five years.’ Well it’s obvious that I’m eating more and moving
less. but why? In other words, are there changes in my world which would
contribute to eating more and moving less? Now here’s the segue part so don’t
miss it: if I consider this weight gain a sort of treason against my better
health, are there any secret knives that I can identify? So I did my best to
figure out what’s in, or out, of my life in the past five years that’s different
from previously. I thought of many things, some of which might be secret knives
and some not. Now keep in mind, I was approaching this from the angle of
identifying changes first, and then determining if those changes were relevant
to weight gain. Well it occurred to me that I started this blog just about five
years ago. Could the blog possibly be a secret knife? Could it? It’s certainly
an interesting thought, but one that at first blush does not seem to be a
knife. But if it were, and I want to lose this weight, shouldn't I be eliminating that knife by shutting
down the blog?
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