Nothing on Earth lasts forever. Even if it does, you won’t be here to verify it. With that said, each of us has an individual responsibility to do what we can to maintain ourselves, hopefully extending the period of time that we are alive. Those who take good precautionary care of their bodies and educate their minds generally live longer, more active lives than those who do not. However, in life there are no guarantees. Eating right and exercising will help with your desire for longevity, but many other factors, events, and circumstances can dramatically shorten your lifespan or even end it abruptly.
Regardless of the odds, we must give ourselves the best chance for healthy life continuance. Our families need us around. Our friends want us around. Our jobs depend on us for success. We don’t want to let any of them down, but what can we do about it? Surely our Creator is the only one who truly controls life and death. Well, while that is true, we were created to be free-thinking and self-healing organisms. If only we would do what is required to promote the self-healing process, we could live as long as we want. This may sound far fetched to some and to a degree it is. The fact that there are so many things that work against the self-healing process is the catalyst to the belief that longevity is a fluke.
So why is preservation better than reparation? That’s simple. Reparation means to restore to good condition. The need to restore something indicates that its condition has deteriorated to an unfavorable state. Preservation means to maintain the current state of something, minimizing the possibility of injury, malfunction, and disrepair. Naturally, preservation should be your obvious choice.
As we mature, our lives become filled with things that require more of our time and attention. This makes living a healthy lifestyle seemingly impossible. I’ve often heard people say, “I don’t have time for that” or “I can’t rest, I work two jobs.” Then, when their body breaks down landing them in the hospital, they have no choice but to make time. We’ve all seen it happen before. So the question we need to ask ourselves is, why wait until it gets to that point? If we have good health now, why not maintain it? We shouldn’t let pride or possessions prevent us from preserving our well-being. Good wealth is useless without good health.
Preservation is a choice. We must decide whether value-sizing our combo meal now is worth the possibility of taking blood pressure medication later. We must choose whether smoking cigarettes today is as pleasurable as the oxygen tank we may have to lug around in the future. No one can predict the future, but each of our present actions are what shape it. Repair is much harder, costlier, and time consuming than preventative maintenance. We must replace the “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” thinking with “if it ain’t broke, keep it that way.” Make preservation a goal and reparation a resort. Take care of yourselves.
-- Linwood Butler, Jr.
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Very well said. This can make all of us who want to change put preservation principle into effect immediately. I for one will take advantage of this day and not put things off. Tomorrow is not promised so why not take the most of the time we have today? There will always be those of us who are used to the same old same old, those who are scared of change, instead of taking a chance and maybe failing. These individuals will continue to make excuses and became haters. This will eat the inside of their core and being here on Earth. I choose to fly above and out. What will you choose? Let's preserve minds and bodies and make the most of this day.
ReplyDeletePreserve vs. Restore, I get it. So many people do not. Regards to health, eat right, exercise, don't smoke -- all these things, people know, but still fall victum and only do something, making an attempt when the doctor gives them the speech. Yes, your're gonna die IF.....YOU DON'T DO X,W,& Z. How do we fix it, education, education, & experience.
ReplyDeleteIt needs to be taught by the medical community, by the elders, parents alike, scholasitc community, etc. Unfortunately, experience-people going thru it is how most people learn.
“Experience is a hard teacher for it gives you the test first…..then it gives you the lesson.”