Health Just Isn’t My Thing

Many people consider a healthy lifestyle to be a preference, almost as if it were a hobby, but with the prevalence of life threatening disease, can you really afford to have this attitude?

Because much of the health information that’s flooded through mainstream media is so misleading, many people are shocked by the simplicity and effectiveness of natural health. Despite this, they still react as if a healthy lifestyle is only for people with some type of special interest or motivation. This unfortunate mentality ultimately prevents many millions of people from living the long and happy life that they had always pictured and hoped for.

What’s the Purpose of Life?

The purpose of life can be a deep and philosophical subject that will always inspire many different answers. However, the one thing that nearly everyone agrees on is that life should be a joyous experience.

It’s probably safe to say that the suffering and limitation associated with disease are not part of your plan for happiness. However, if you continue to live the typical but unhealthy modern lifestyle, a significantly compromised quality of life is what you’ll likely end up with. You can accept this as a normal and unfortunate part of aging as most people do, or you can be proactive and reshape your future.

Since it’s difficult to be happy while suffering from sickness and pain, the importance of good health should be obvious. Unfortunately, most people lower their expectations based on the numerous examples of poor health that they see every day. If happiness is so important, and we need good health to achieve it, then why not do everything you can to exceed expectations?

Living a Healthy Lifestyle is NOT a Hobby!

When exposed to the healthy habits that I follow, people often think I’m an obsessive health fanatic. Contrary to what they may think, I don’t live this way just for the sake of it, or for recognition, but because I know it’s necessary if I want to feel and function my best each day.

I lived the typical modern lifestyle long enough for it to practically destroy my health and long enough to realize that it was a serious problem. Like many people, I pushed through life each day with fatigue and a wide variety of other complaints. This certainly isn’t my idea of happiness, nor is it justified by the enjoyment of living with reckless abandon every day.

No matter how well you currently tolerate unhealthy habits, they’ll eventually catch up with you. In fact, if you do tolerate them well, it will just be that much easier to gradually destroy your health and accept the consequences as normal aging.

After giving this a moment to sink in, can you honestly consider a healthy lifestyle as nothing more than a preference?

Consider the Significance of Evolution

You simply can’t deny the influence that millions of years of evolution has had on our existence. Because of it, we’re preconditioned to sleep when the sun is down, eat natural whole foods from the earth and it’s animals, and only experience significant stress during occasional life threatening emergencies.

Most people don’t live anything like this today, and to make matters worse, our bodies aren’t evolved to handle the large amounts of stress and toxic chemicals that we’re bombarded with every day. It doesn’t take a genius to realize that many of the health problems that plague modern society are a result of how much we’ve deviated from the way of life that got us here. Nonetheless, this is the perspective that’s considered to be an obsessive and fanatical preference by so many people.

Is Life Also Not Your Thing?

Given that health is the foundation of life, if health isn’t your thing, then is life also not your thing? Despite what you may think, living recklessly now and expecting to be saved by medical innovation or prescription medication is not the good health that will support an enjoyable life.

Would you dedicate yourself to years of relentless hard work if you knew it would provide you with the life of your dreams? What if you finally achieve this dream and are suddenly diagnosed with cancer and given 3 months to live? Since health isn’t your thing, it shouldn’t matter, right?

If you’re willing to work this hard to live a good life, then why wouldn’t you be willing to work at improving your health, especially when it’s such an important part of longevity and happiness?

It’s Really Not That Difficult

Many people argue that a healthy lifestyle takes all the fun out of life. I suppose that depends on your definition of fun, but in most cases, this is far from the truth.

Some people have the mentality that because they’re going to die anyway, they might as well enjoy every moment and indulge as often as they wish. Aside from being impractical, this is like living life on credit, but instead of bill collectors, it’ll be disease that comes to settle the debt.

As long as you’re willing to compensate, it is possible to have the best of the both worlds. If you live according to the 80/20 rule and enjoy unhealthy activities in moderation, the good health you build during the remaining time will allow you to sustain it with little to no consequence.

You have little to lose and everything to gain by perceiving a healthy lifestyle as more of a necessity than a preference. Why not change your thinking and start preparing for a better future right now?

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