It will happen

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I was already planning on writing a post about a situation mentioned in here, but I was getting kind of flustered with a discussion on doing things to help you live longer. Let's face it, it won't happen. Yes, there are things that will help improve your health so you don't die at a young age. Preventing heart diseases, certain cancers, diabetes, they can be prevented to a point with a healthy lifestyle and so you don't die before you are 60. But is missing that one lazy day to lie in bed all day and do nothing worth it? What about that slice of birthday cake at your aunt's birthday? The thing is, we are all going to die. You can be healthy and still die at 40. Health isn't what shields you from death. Death doesn't discriminate whether you pray to god or sell yourself on the street. I ran around so much as a kid, I ate super well, I played and yet I still ended up being obese because I have a disease that I cannot control. I had a friend die at 17 and he was super healthy, but he was murdered. I don't think a carrot would have prevented that. Another person I knew, not very closely died in a car accident, he was only 20. He was on his way of being drafted into a sports team! A football player, worked out all the time and still died. One of my first experiences of how cruel life could be was a woman I went to church with. I didn't know her very well, but she a vegan, this was before the whole fad of being vegan was a thing. She got married and when she was pregnant with her first and only child, she was diagnosed with leukemia. This was when I was probably 8 years old and first exposed to what cancer was. She was able to have her baby, a little girl. A short few months later the lady died. And that was the first memorial service I ever went to. I knew she had cancer, but didn't understand why all of these unhealthy people get to live and such a sweet lady had to leave behind a beautiful family. It is unfair. Another example is my aunt, my own family member, my uncle's wife, mother of 4 kids was diagnosed with breast cancer. That family runs marathons, works out, goes to church, praises God in every post they make on facebook. They are health nuts! My uncle is struggling with vertigo and had a mini-stroke and his wife has breast cancer and I do hope she can beat it because she is my aunt and I love her. But that was just an example that health doesn't mean you live longer. Eating healthy and exercising does not promise you a longer chance of living. It does drop some chances of dying "early" but we are all going to die anyway and we should embrace that. Yes, please, eat healthily and exercise. I love exercising, it makes me feel great, but I'm not doing it to live longer, I am doing it just because I want to. So please be healthy if you want to, but don't miss the chance of eating ice cream with your kids or having a lazy Saturday night with your spouse eating nothing but a junk salad.