[corksil]

Just gotta add... fitness is one of the only socially acceptable forms of 'self harm' -- if you pick up a blade and cut yourself and get high on the pain, you are said to have massive psychological problems. But if you run until you vomit, and lift until your vision blurs and you have to hold on to something while everything spins and your vision goes black... for some reason that's considered 'peachy.'

Fitness is considered a healthy 'outlet' because the body reacts to the abuse in a positive way and grows stronger, able to endure more -- then the cycle repeats.

Euroboros -- the snake in mythology that grows so large, that nothing else in it's habitat can feed it. It can't find prey big enough to satisfy it's hunger, so it's forced to consume it's tail to survive.. only the flesh of it's own body is ethereal enough to nourish it's existence, so it grows, consumes itself, grows bigger, supports it's own consumption, like the phoenix rising from the ashes from which it smoldered into pieces to rebirth itself and grow again.