Painterly pair of worn trainers on a sunlit road in a dry landscape.

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Janeane Garofalo

I think that by staying out of shape at the age of 33 I’m doing myself a huge favor for my future. There will never be anyone commenting on how I’ve ‘let myself go.’ I’ve gone. It’s gone. It’s not going, it’s GONE.

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Our interpretation.

The speaker jokes that staying out of shape at thirty-three is a favour to their future self, since nobody can later say they let themselves go. They've already gone, completely. The humour comes from turning physical decline into self-mocking, defiant logic.

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