That post about “anyone can be in great physical shape if it’s one of your top three priorities” annoyed me in a hard-to-describe way until I realized that my top three priorities are “have a job,” “have acceptable personal hygiene” and “have a living space that’s fit for human habitation,” and that the privilege of having any different top three priorities is reserved for people a lot richer than me
this incidentally raises interesting thoughts about the definition of priorities
We don’t usually start thinking of things as “priorities” unless they are within a certain… uncannyish valley, in terms of our access to them
i.e. achievable and desirable, but NOT so certain that they are taken for granted
if i were in a situation where my access to breathable oxygen was uncertain from day to day, i would definitely think of it as a higher priority than the three i mentioned
and meanwhile, someone who does value things like income and hygiene and a livable home over great physical shape… might still not think of it that way, if their ability to have income and hygiene and a livable home has never been in question