Here's To You, Class of '92!

The Boot Camp class I sub for contains a wide range of participants from beginners to regulars who could run circles around me. One night, I was attempting to motivate them when I said, “Don’t worry about the other people in class. This is your workout. What you put into it is what you get out of it.” Then I said (hold onto your seats cuz this is pretty profound), “Just the fact that you are here…”(long pause) “…is good.” That’s all I could think to say. Super inspiring, right? That’s ok. It made them laugh, which is good for your core.

Saturday night was my 20-year High School Reunion. If I had taken some time away from singing karaoke, I would love to have given this toast to my friends:

“MCHS Class of ’92, the fact that you are here is good! Many of our classmates are missing tonight. Some wanted to come but couldn’t. Others are not here simply because they were worried about the other people in class. Maybe they were afraid of how their careers or family lives would compare. Or maybe they felt they needed to lose weight or couldn’t find the right clothes or shoes to wear. Twenty years ago we all had visions of how our lives would look today. But we all know life has a way of making all kinds of twists and turns from those starry-eyed days of our youth. I think Patrick O’Connor and I vowed to start a law firm together (stop laughing).

John Lennon said it best: “When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy.’ They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.”

So don’t worry about the other people in class. This is your life. What you put into it is what you get out of it. Put happiness into it.

Here’s to you, Class of ’92! You are here, and it is good!”

To all of our classmates who were not there, we really missed you and hope to see you next time.

PS- I say we all wear our pajamas to the 25^th. Whatchya think?