What’s behind every health crisis?
Well hello everyone! I hope this newsletter finds everyone in good health and high spirits.
We’ve had plenty of time to get perspective on this viral pandemic, and I think I speak for everyone when I say we’re all sick of talking about it. But, I think it worthwhile to look back and dig out some deeper meaning from it.
We lost a lot of good people over the past year plus and I don’t ever want to diminish the deaths of the multitudes of those that passed in connection with the Coronavirus.
Having said that, I think our world was ripe for a viral pandemic and all the suffering it brought with it. I sincerely hope that the majority of people on our planet made the connection that the people who got the most ill were the people who, in general, were those in the poorest of health. Again, I know there are exceptions, but as a rule it is POOR LIFESTYLE CHOICES over the course of an individual’s life that lead to increased vulnerability. I’ve heard precious few political and medical leaders bring up this very obvious truth. Is it because they’re afraid to offend the public? Well folks, I am sorry but sometimes the truth hurts. The choices we all make minute-to-minute have the most impact on our well being. This applies not only to vulnerability to viruses, but cancer, diabetes, heart disease, etc. You can find hundreds of books on how to be healthy but I can boil it down to fit on a 3 x 5 notecard. We can’t claim ignorance here. The rules our bodies came with to maintain good health haven’t changed at all through the millennia.
So, please take some time and ponder the priorities in your life and look to see where you can simplify and declutter and honor on a daily basis, the miracle that is the human body.
“ . . . Our life is frittered away by detail. An honest man has hardly need to count more than his ten fingers, or in extreme cases he may add his ten toes, and lump the rest. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million, count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb nail. In the midst of this chopping sea of civilized life, such are the clouds and storms and quicksands and thousand-and-one items to be allowed for, that a man has to live, if he would not founder and go to the bottom and not make his port at all, by dead reckoning, and he must be a great calculator indeed who succeeds. Simplify, simplify. Instead of three meals a day, if it be necessary eat but one; instead of a hundred dishes, five; and reduce other things in proportion.“ - Henry David Thoreau
