I know it’s a joke strip, but don’t worry about being judged at the gym, only the 1% bottom dregs of gym goers do that. Most of us know it’s difficult and respect you for trying, we won’t bother you unless you might injure yourself.
And that woman is quietly getting jacked af, look that massive back in her last panel
I have never had any thoughts about anyone in my gym beyond “I hope no-one heard me fart on that last squat.”
My only thought is “please let the squat rack be free please let the squat rack be free, yay! Squat rack! What’s that smell?”
This idea that other people are looking at you and judging you at the gym is pure paranoia and a bit of a case of “main character syndrome”
No one is looking at you, you are not the main character. You’re just a background NPC to them.
Thing is, it’s not about being “the main character”. Some people had a really rough time in school and for them it can feel that they’re being judged by others even if most people aren’t. Childhood trauma and psychological conditions are really complex and even if you can “logically” reason something to be true, your anxiety and your emotions are really really good at convincing you that your fears aren’t unfounded.
Lol you clearly don’t go to the gym if you’re saying this. Went to the YMCA as a kid and saw elliptical politics that made my middle school that literally split us into “teams” by economic class look tame in comparison. Because of the death of the third place in western society, any activity that isn’t where you sleep or work becomes a third place, where people are kind of inherently judging the people around them, to fulfill this. All the shitty people you went to high school gym with are mostly the same people now, and need a place to continue their bullshit. Some will grow past this, but by that point the next generation of gym shitheads is ready.
The only way I agree with your comment is if you said “people at the gym aren’t judging you any more than people outside the gym already do”. Maybe it’s just the area I live, but everything becomes a game of judgement. It’s one thing to say “yeah I’m being judged by other people and I don’t care”. But to determine that you aren’t being percieved at all off of this idea is more delusional than the idea that you are being percieved.
My experience is in line with @TJmCAwesome@feddit.nu
Maybe you have a case of the main character syndrome or some social anxiety yourself
Lol nah it’s true, people silently judge everyone around them and they do it to try to convince themselves they are superior. That they haven’t been doing things wrong their whole lives. That their inner models for how the world works are accurate.
You just don’t want to admit that humans are that shitty, that’s all. Or that you are.
Last time on DBZ:
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Next time on DBZ:
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I always appreciate the digglet dudes around anime expo, costume is just at least a year of getting ripped AF and the work SHOWS.
my thoughts at gym:
- grumble I’m tired and want to go home but I’m glad I came
- oh hey it’s that person, they’re making progress rock on
- ah rehab exercises? bummer. Good on them doing the work to get better
- Wow that person is jacked, they must be working so hard
- Oh no the thing I want to use it taken. Oh well I’ll wait
