EXTRA CREDIT: BREATHING

Breathing; such a crazy thing we take advantage of.  I've learned to "breathe" a lot more within the past few years.  It's always nice to just take a step back, relax, and breathe.  With a lot of anxieties these days, breathing has helped me more than I care to admit.  It is something we don't really think about, but especially with everything going on these days, it is something that I think we've noticed more, and noticed we take it for granted.

Within my profession, I teach certain group exercise classes; a breathing class happens to be one of them.  Well, a breathing and stretching class.  It's crazy to me how many people don't take the time to step back and breathe; and it's also crazy how much the class helps them. 

Breathing is a necessity, but it is also a privilege in a sense.  We as humans deserve the right to breathe, whether it be metaphorically speaking or in the actual sense.  While I do not, and will not ever understand the pain and suffering that people other than my background have gone through, I do feel that everyone deserves to be heard.  I don't like to get too political, because I don't want to say the wrong thing, or offend anyone, but I believe that everyone deserves to "breathe."  When I heard that George Floyd continually kept saying, "I can't breathe," and the officer did not stop, that's where the problem lies.   However, when I say that "breathing" is a privilege, I mean that it is something that we should not take advantage of.  Sometime we misuse our "breathing" power and think that because we are alive on this earth, that we "breathe" differently than other people.  Also, on the other hand, we do not know the background of each side.  I don't even know if any of what I'm saying makes sense, but what I do know is that we need to see change -- on both sides.  Whatever we're doing now is clearly not working, so we need to learn to take a step back, assess the situation, see what we can do to do our part, and well, remember to breathe.