My Body, My Hard Drive

"The Body" by Pains of Being Pure at Heart from Phillip Van on Vimeo.

One of my favorite books is Douglas Coupland's Microserfs. It's about a group of geeks that devote most of their waking hours to writing elegant lines of code. I read it many, many years ago, but I remember it just now after having watched this video.

It was Dan, one of the characters, who said that sometimes, he felt like his body was just some contraption that drives his brain to work. And that's so true! It's too easy to forget your relationship with your body. It's too easy to abuse your body with work, work, and more work.

Reminder to self: My body is my hard drive, I have to take care of it. I don't want it crashing on me now! :)