The ONLY Thing In Life We Can Control Is Our Own Body

Except for our own body, we control nothing.

Everything else in life that is meaningful requires the cooperation of other people. We need other people to agree to any sort of relationship with us. We need other people to hire us, promote us, buy our products or services, to provide aid and inclusion, to grow our food, to make shelter available to us.

When it comes to health, fitness and well-being, great emotion surrounds these issues because despite denial and arguments to the contrary, only we get to decide—and when it’s clear we decided wrong, we are angry and ashamed. And as hard as we may try, there is no one else to blame.

Blaming or justifying does not turn back the clock, but changing our ways certainly can. People, especially older people, have two choices: either call a dead stop your bullshit or continue driving toward the cliff.

I have no personal investment in others’ choices, but when self destructive people experiencing the results of their bad decisions demand accommodation from me, I get angry, especially when the powers that be agree with them and take away from those who made the right decision so as to provide accommodations for those who did not. But I personally cannot control that, as it is the way a delinquent society works. The vast majority of society's members  do not work committedly toward good health, either physical or mental. The great majority—as evidenced by the ridiculous obesity statistics—intentionally pursue a self-destructive path. But there will be no winners among them, as we all die alone with our regrets. There is no comfort at the end of their lives for those self-destructive people whose last months or years are spent in physical pain and mental anguish.

In a world in which we have little power, taking control of the ONLY area of power we do have makes all the difference in our quality of life and our sense of well-being. Tick-tock.