THE FITNESS CULTURE: CHAPTER 1
WHY FITNESS IS A MUST !
In the rat race for earning and survival, we often forget the fact that physical fitness is not an option but a must. The daily grind makes other matters so demanding that health matters assume lesser importance, and are sometimes quite neglected. We tend eat fast food (that are so often junk food), and hardly pay attention to proper exercise and relaxation. Although it is necessary to earn money for a living, or for, may be, achieving personal or financial goals, fitness should never be neglected.
The simple fact is that unless you are healthy and fit, you would not be able to pursue your financial or other goals. There are an infinite number of health problems that can come in the way of your earning, or working, or doing business, or being happy. Even if you are presently healthy and fit, do not fool yourself into thinking that your fitness would automatically last forever without taking any steps towards keeping or remaining fit. Make it a point to mind your own health and start doing something to maintain ongoing fitness, so that you can pursue your financial or other goals.
Some people would argue (you may come across many such people in your life) that after all, we are going to die one day. Why not just live and enjoy life the way you would like to, and disregard fitness pursuits? For example, chain smokers may try to justify their smoking habits on these lines and continue to smoke the way they do. Similarly, habitual drinkers, and compulsive habitual heavy eaters, and eaters of junk foods may all raise the same argument. They would all say “Why worry about fitness? We are all going to die one day, so might as well make the most of life when we can”. This argument is good only as long there is an assurance that death will occur in a flash of a moment without inflicting any suffering whatsoever.
Unfortunately, this is very rarely the case. Health problems mostly occur in such a way that pain and suffering come first, eventually followed by death afterwards. It is such pain and suffering that needs to be avoided, and we certainly should do our best to avoid them. For example imagine the pain, suffering, agony and mental torture when a smoker gets lung or mouth cancer; when the liver of a habitual drinker gets faulty; when a habitual over-eater, due to obesity develops high blood pressure or paralysis due to a blood clot in the brain. If the argument held by such persons had been true (that fitness pursuits are unnecessary), then they should have died a painless death without undergoing physical suffering. However, in reality, there is a length of time-period when such persons do not die but continue to suffer - in some instances, for a very long time. In most cases, the suffering situation is irreversible, and it is too late to regret having neglected the aspect of physical fitness earlier.
Here is the biggest difference between a car or a scooter and a living human body. If you have neglected a vehicle and the engine becomes faulty or short-lived, you can sell off the vehicle (although at a lower price), and get rid of it. But you cannot do this to your own body. You cannot get rid of your own body when you like, unless you commit suicide (which happens to be illegal in most places). In other words, if the body gets diseased or faulty, you have to live with it and endure the pain and suffering until death occurs. So if haven’t already started paying attention to fitness, you would be better off by starting to pay attention now! Fitness is a must, it is not an option. Read more about “Fitness Culture” series on www.rajathifamilykitchen.com
