A Toast To Your Health

A Toast To Our Health

As a young man I never toasted to my or any of my friends health. Good health was a given. Yes there were people we knew that had bad health at a young age, but that was considered the vast minority.

We did things nobody should ever do because we never considered our health. I played football even though I was only five foot eight, one hundred and fifty pounds. They broke my shoulder, broke my ankle, two toes and two fingers. I considered those broken bones as something I would recover quickly from and get back at it.

I never got sick enough to miss work or any other activity. Doing anything to maintain good health was never in my mind. Those of you who are in your twenties and thirties probably are living the way I did. However, this is a false sense of immortality. What you do for your health today (good or bad) will eventually catch up to you.

All the pounding I received from sports created my bad back and major surgery on my neck. Eating a lot of bad shit raised my sugar level, my cholesterol level and my high blood pressure. Oh sure, my Doctor Feel Good has me on medication to control all those things, but wouldn't it be great to not have to take all those pills every day?

At sixty I decided to take better care of myself. I go to the gym four days a week, I eat healthy and I have cut down my sweets significantly. I still need all the pills because I'm older and I started too late.

However, the most important thing I changed regarding my health is my attitude.

Good health IS happiness. It's a lot harder to get all the happiness you deserve when you're in bad health. However, you can focus on the happiness that's available to you even if your health is not the best.

My bad back and neck are things I've lived with for a long time. They will be with me the rest of my life. I've decided to make they part of my life, not a burden on my life and happiness. So what if I have to take a few pills. I'm focused to having my health under control, not feeling angry or frustrated because of all the bad shit I did when I thought good health was not important.

As you know from my previous blogs and books, we should never live life with shouldas or couldas. Whatever cards we were dealt or whatever we did when we were stupid is the past. Today is the day we need to focus on. Doing everything we can to either make our health better or just not letting it get worse should be our mantra.

No matter what age you are now, when you raise your glass with your friends or loved ones make sure you say these words:

A Toast To Our Health.