Health Reserves

Health Reserves?

Usually reserves are thought of in terms of reserves of money or food items or household supplies.

These reserves are then stored, saved and used as needed and in case you need them. If you use them you need to replenish them.

These are fine and important.

But I think people also should create reserves of other things that are just as or more important than money, food or household supplies.

I mean things like;

1) Health.

2) Energy.

3) Time.

4) Experiences.

5) Options.

Feeling good and having energy is obviously one of the best things in life.

Trying to maintain vitality is high on most people's list.

Doing things that hurt your health on a consistent basis is one of the quickest ways into the grave. Things like:

1) Smoking cigarettes daily.

2) Drinking heavily daily.

3) Overeating daily.

4) Under sleeping daily.

5) Overworking daily.

6) Not doing anything daily that you want to do.

You will notice that I mention the word daily in this list.

I think everyone can do some of those things occasionally without hurting themselves.

Smoking is terrible for you if you smoke quite a few cigarettes every day for years on end.

Having a few cigarettes when you have a few drinks once or twice a month probably won't hurt you.

Having a huge Thanksgiving feast won't hurt you but eating like that every day for years will hurt you.

Drinking like its New Year's Eve is fun once in awhile. If you drink like its New Year's Eve every night for a few years you won't live to see that many more New Year's.

Working 14 hours a day to meet some deadlines or finish some important project shouldn't hurt you as long as it isn't continuous.

I don't get upset if I overeat occasionally, have a lot to drink once in a while, stay late at the office to meet a deadline or miss a few hours of sleep.

I do get upset and know that I will suffer if I don't get enough sleep 3 nights in a row. That would be too much for me.

I know I missed lots of sleep when I was married. I never really felt rested during that time of my life.

I can meet up with friends for a wild weekend of late nights at the bars, early mornings on the golf course and long afternoons on the boat and get along with minimal sleep, lots of beer drinking, lots of effort while golfing and boating and enjoying some big meals.

I just plan to go into a weekend like that well rested and a little hungry and plan on getting to bed early the next few days after.

It is hard for me to believe sometimes that I can enjoy a long, wild weekend. I am over 40 years old and not in that great of shape. I just have a reserve of health.

Trying to go through life being only concerned about your health is unhealthy.

If you go through life and you never do anything you want to do, you will die young. In fact you are dead already.

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