The Gym Post

I have been in the gym everyday since monday. I am really really tired, but I think it is worth it. It allows me to eat a bit more normally, which is good and hopefully will make me look gorgeous. Eventually.

Funny are some men there, though. Shorts should not be an option for men, believe me.

And I nice motivational story. Back in 1972 a plane crashed in the Andes, South America. It is a very well known story, specially in Spanish speaking countries. The occupants of the plane were from Uruguay and were lost in winter in the middle of the mountain for 72 days. They had no food or propper winter clothes. At least not good enough for being in the middle of constant snow.
Because they had no food they had no other option that eat the corpses of the poor people who actually died. They did have a radio were they got the news. Not 10 days after the crash, the news announced that they would not be continuing the search for the missing plane and its passenger.

I can only imagine the despair and the hope at the same time.

Three of them finally volunteered to try to get out of there and find help. Only two of them went ahead, the third one went back to the plane. They were under the impression that behind the very mountain they were on, there was a valley. It took them 3 days to get at the top only to find out that behind the mountains, there were more mountains. It took the two of them almost two weeks to get through, walking and climbing. They finally found some guy, a farmer maybe, riding a horse who went for help.

Those two guys crossed the Andes by foot, with no equipment, proper clothes, food and with a weight of 38 kilos, sign of their obvious malnutrition. However, they did it and 14 of them were rescued. 14 survivors out of 23.

If that is not will power, I don't know what is. It is, however, a very famous story, mainly because the press made a big deal with the cannibalism part of it.
I can only imagine the kind of hope you need to have to force yourself to give the one step more during more than 10 days freezing cold and starving.