Apart
from what Covid took away from us, there has been a sad rise in deaths of the
younger lot because of other health reasons too. It’s no more uncommon to hear
about deaths because of heart attack or other medical reasons at a younger age.
Be it any profession or any gender such unfortunate loss of lives is not rare
anymore.
Times
have certainly changed. Our lifestyles are not the same anymore and our
priorities have changed drastically. We live in a world where everything is
possible, there are no limits to anything, and rules or discipline? Well! We
have our own set of rules and love to break them too. We have created our own
world of disorder. We want to stay the same throughout our lives; because we
have stopped believing in aging too. To stay young at heart is a popular
saying. Keeping the good part of it, which relates to staying jovial and fun-loving
aside, we do have to understand that every cell of our body is aging every
single day.
Stressing
over every single thing, following no schedule to sleep, eating without
regulations, and staying in a constant hustle to be visible on social media, or
scrolling through others’ lives and posts endlessly is something that we
probably can’t sustain forever. There are many such unhealthy things prevalent
around us, which we are no longer ready to change because we have normalized
everything. We are not ready to take healthy suggestions too, because of some
millennial phrases like, “my life, my rules” Such phrases would have
definitely initiated for some good, to stop trolls, to elevate one’s
self-confidence, etc, but, increasingly we have taken them too literally. So
much so that we get blind to what’s good for us and our health and what's not.
Having excess fat, or being excessively thin, is beautiful but not healthy. Planning
to have a child at later ages in life deliberately, without a valid reason does
have a possibility of ill health consequences on the child and the mother. Even
if one is fortunate to conceive and deliver in good health, it can’t be
promoted to others as normal. We have to realize that we badly need order in
our lives to stay healthy. We do have biological limits and some rules are
mandatory and don’t make you old and boring if you follow them, they instead
make you more ordered and fit.
With
the factors that affect our health, there are things as deadly as Covid around
us, that we can’t do anything about, but on a positive note, there are some
things that are in our hands. Let us focus on them, and minimize any sort of
ill health consequences which we may have to face because of them. Instead of
probably saying something like, 40 is the new 30, take 40 as it is and make it
cooler, better, and healthier.
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