If there's one thing I absolutely cannot put up with: it's preaching.

I don't care what it is, what they're selling, how wonderful and amazing their product/lifestyle/belief/system is, they can shove it where the sun won't see it for all I care because like hell am I going to tolerate someone glorifying themselves and their own whoeverwhatsits while trashing mine.

Yoga just might prove to be an interesting class yet. Now, I sort of assumed my instructor might be a tad on the eccentric side, because yoga is generally something that appeals to the hippie throwback type (not a bad thing at all). However, this does not make it ok to be shoving a totally natural, vegan, purist, everything-modern-and-new-will-kill-you-or-give-you-cancer attitude onto students. You just don't do that in a classroom setting that people are paying for. You do not.

I did not pay money to listen to this woman tell me that because I like chocolate that my kidneys will undoubtedly fail. I did not pay money to hear that because I wear underwire bras I will most certainly get breast cancer. I did not pay money to hear about how much of a temple my body is when this stranger who's never even looked into my eyes once before today at 6pm. No one knows my body like I do. And I will not listen to someone intent on converting me to her lifestyle.

The funniest thing was that she actually told us, "this has nothing to do with religion; it's all science."

No, sweetheart. Science may have based it, but your rigid, fastidious set into it is most certainly religion. Where do you think the term 'religiously' came from, hmm?

It's not that I'm just putting up my typical teenage rebellion against anything that I don't like. I try not to do that. But I do have a strong personality and a strong sense of what I will and will not tolerate. I will not tolerate a stranger telling me what I will and won't do with my own body. Even the spiritual (and sometimes quite eccentric in my own right) side balks. There is a difference between helpful instruction, putting out information, or expressing one's own views and telling a group of students flat out that she is going to single-handedly convert every one of us to this religion.

I will not.

There had better be some movement in this goddamn class after the first-day talk-through that was an hour long and used up two minutes actually telling us what we needed for it. If there isn't, and if all there will be is eccentricity and conversion-attempts, I will be dropping this bullshit so fast it'll kill something within three miles.

And I'm not buying a goddamn yoga mat either. Those things are pricy, and I'm accustomed to working on the floor anyway.

Ugh. All done now...thanks for listening ><






and no, I'm not zealous right now. I'm pissed.