rant · moment 14 of 24
The Fit Lawyer Fantasy and Redoing Life as an Athlete
from 165 - Please Come Kill Us · #165
5 min
Tim fantasizes about an alternate life as an athletic, successful lawyer, contrasting it with a real flamboyant, bombastic fat lawyer he knew, and Ray reflects on a period he briefly ran five miles a day.
- Tim would do nothing differently if he could go back and redo his life.
- If he could do it all again, he'd be a lacrosse player.
- At age 30, Tim was running five miles a day despite being fat his whole life until then.
- Being fat as a kid meant never being good at athletic stuff, and he wishes he'd pushed his body more.
- Athletic backgrounds matter—you can get good at baseball and feel good about yourself.
- Tim could have been a fit lawyer instead of the fat lawyers he's known.
- He knew a fat lawyer who was good at his job but still embarrassing in court, wearing a scarf in the middle of proceedings.
- This lawyer was bombastic with a lisp and slur, threw huge Christmas parties for the whole county, and told Tim to shave his beard.
- Tim scored around 1280 on the SAT without practicing, thinks he could've clicked at 1400 with effort.
- If he'd applied himself, he could have gotten into Columbia or a similar college.