I know the gym is where I go to build muscle, but this week I think I built a little more empathy too.
There’s this one piece of equipment I could not figure out, and I walked away feeling like I had totally failed. But the next day, I saw another woman struggling on the same machine—and because I had been there, I could encourage her.
And I remembered something someone told me years ago: you start where you start.
There’s no shame in it - at the gym or in life.