It’s about time day #3 of Medicine Week showed up!

Redeeming Reasons

Why do we want to be healthy and live a long life?  It seems pretty obvious, right?  I mean, who doesn’t want both those things. But have you ever really stopped to ask yourself what you are doing with the health and years you have?  Are you redeeming them for something or are they both just for their own sake?

Layers of Reasons

I understand health for it’s own sake.  After all, being healthy feels better than not.  Being fit feels better than not. We don’t really have to defend our desire to be healthy beyond that, do we. It’s its own reason.  But is it the only reason? Is it the ultimate reason?  

I remember when I got divorced and started going to the gym to get back in shape.  I looked around and wondered, what are all these people going to be doing with all this fitness they have?  Then of course I had to turn the question back to myself. What was I going to do with it all? Obviously I was getting in shape to be more attractive to the opposite sex, since I planned on dating.

My Ultimate Reason

But besides getting a mate, I thought farther down the line, what other reasons were there? I wanted to be in shape for that mate into the future, for my kids into the future so I could travel to visit and support them, so I could teach people, so I could help others, so I could be of service to whomever would need something from me, so I could enjoy life and sha

So ultimately, for me, it then and now comes down to one essential thing. I want to be in good health so I can love the best I can.  That is the whole of it. That’s why I want to live a long life as well.  

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Drawing, quote and commentary by Marty Coleman, who is fit as a fiddle.  But how fit is a fiddle anyway?

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Literary Question of the Day

Where did the saying, ‘Fit as a Fiddle’come from?

Come back tomorrow for the answer.

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