I was sitting on my favorite bathroom chair a few months ago and as I skimmed through the pages of a magazine, I realized that I had already read it. Grabbing another out of my magazine rack, saw that this one too, I had already read. After going through two or three others with the same result, I just gave up and dove in to re-reading one that looked a bit more compelling... and the strangest thing happened...

I found a whole bunch of stuff that sounded brand new to me. New information, new tips, new articles... yet it was all still strangely familiar. I took my time going through that issue over my next several trips to the john - and found a whole bunch of great "new" stuff. Over the next several weeks, I slowly went through the other "old" magazines in my rack... and I found the same thing - everything seemed "new" and fresh - as if it were a brand new issue I had just received that month!

Since then, I've been thinking about it - and have decided that discovering new material in old magazines could be for one of a few reasons... 1. I never really read the magazine in the first place, just looked at the pictures, and skimmed the headlines, 2. I read the magazine but didn't retain any of what I read, 3. I only looked at the cover - and thought I had read it. As I think more about it, I'm having the troubling feeling that it's most likely option #2... which probably means that I've lost so many brain cells doing crossfit, that I no longer have any short term or long term memory. But on the bright side (I tend to be a "glass is half full" guy anyway), I can save a bunch of money by canceling all my subscriptions... Reading, re-reading, and re-re-reading the ones I already have seems to be just as enjoyable and satisfying as getting new ones each month!