The human body has the awesome ability to adapt to adversity. We are hard wired for this process, as for 2 million years for our species it was either feast or famine, up or down, back and forth, with no status quo, no rest or break from ever-changing challenging circumstances for mankind’s entire short fleeting lives. During the last 100 years however, that has all changed for most.
As we go downhill slowly we barely notice. Those things that we do notice we simply go into denial about—denial being another crucial coping mechanism hard wired into our brains.
Yet some things cannot be denied: certain events or happenings that blatantly reveal just how far we have deteriorated, willfully.
Doing nothing is willful. Doing nothing is a choice. Not learning to cook or food-shop wisely or claiming that fast food is all we have time for is willful. It’s a choice. Our own personal choice.
The only way to change that—to get ourselves to the gym or work out at home, to stop cramming transfat and saturated fat-laden fast food down our gullets—is to make another choice, a different choice. The choice to thrive rather than to deteriorate—before we reach the point of no return.
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