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Forty is not the new thirty, thirty is not the new twenty! Your age is what it is.

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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