I think I was born ready to run, ready to spring. (Yet another thing I didn’t inherit.) Not this one. So not African, right? Most of my countrymen and women are relaxed, easygoing, go-with-the-flow kind of people. Honestly, I believe that This Square Peg came into this world not only quietly, but enshrouded with a ball of tension and pre-adult anxiety. I thought it over and over and realized what I mentioned above. When I told her about the masseuse and her list of five areas, she reminded me about our conversation about my foot and how it looked tense. I shrug and respond that I don’t know and that it feels fine. She then asks why it seems to be at attention, straight and rigid. Ostensibly relaxed, right? My eagle-eyed mom looks at me and asks if there’s anything wrong with my foot. Case in point: just last week, prior to this massage, I was laying on the couch in our living room. But not 100 percent, you know? Not just like languid and droopy with relaxation. Sure, I’ve had moments where I lay there and feel at peace, serene, undisturbed.
There were five areas she noted, all places that I tend to feel muscle tension throughout the minutes, days, months, years, that pass me by.Īnd that leads to my confession, dear reader: I don’t think I’ve ever been fully relaxed. Well, I got that list. Unsurprisingly, it wasn’t a few places here and there. But with the increase in my exercise regimen (I’ve joined the back-to-back daily workouts life more on that in another post) and more importantly, the quiet cries I hear from my joints every time a workout is completed, it’s time to use that Groupon app and find some massage deals, isn’t it? Anyway, during the session, my masseuse promised to give me a list of areas on my body where she noticed muscle tension–from there, I could go online and research stretching tips for those areas. As lovely as that sounds, since Idris hasn’t yet proposed, my income just doesn’t allow for that yet. Incidentally, one of my former masseuses mentioned that I should be doing these once a month. This past weekend, I had a much-needed, long-overdue massage.
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