There are certain responses that I always expect to hear simply because I've received it so many times after asking the same question. After graduating, I've been meeting up with a lot of old familiar faces. Since we haven't seen each other in a while, we ask, "What have you been up to lately?" It's called catching up and its always nice to know what the other person's been up.
Almost unanimously, there is one thing that is always included with the usual variation of school and work:
Working out.
At this point, I'm not sure if people are legitimately going to the gym, or if they're just throwing the line out because its the standard thing to say. I guess my question reveals some sort of fundamental lack of trust in my own "friends," but as a journalist, I cannot submit to "blind faith." It is in my nature to question and ponder everything I hear. It's a rather paranoid manner of approaching things, I know, but I value truth more than anything else.
But if what I'm hearing isn't just lip service and is actually the truth, then I am rather glad. Especially when politicians and pundits sound off obesity as one of America's greatest problems, I am secure in the fact that I am in good company, company that isn't contributing to the problem.
And if any of you guys are wondering what I've been up to lately, well...I've just been working out you know?
