When I look around nowadays, irrelevant of where I may be, I
see people who are trying to give themselves a purpose. When young we are taught it's a vital thing to do, from being a toddler we're asked ‘what do you want to do when you're older?'. I walked around a city this afternoon for 3 hours
just observing; mobiles, suits, rushing around, everything and everyone looked
so serious. But if everything were to be stripped back, hypothetically you
weren't able to recall anything prior to this moment, what would you be left with? Primarily you are simply left with your body anything else like the makeup, clothes, relationships and
jobs are just what you've decided to add to your life. These other additional factors we can survive without, but what about an
integral organ such as your lungs? You can survive without your career but
lungs are a vital part to your survival. Yet people smoke in hope of maintaining and balancing their stress levels to excel in their career. Effectively, people are willing to
literally die for their jobs. Of course, this is only one scenario I could go
on forever listing the different harmful things that people do to their bodies in order to keep
these impermeable parts of their lives thriving. Fascinating; this is human
behaviour.
Our one true responsibility I believe in life is to look after our
bodies simply in order to keep on living, I wonder how many people out there sacrifice things to
do this job justice? It’s probably a good thing that our heart doesn’t rely on us
to consciously keep the blood pumping around our body. Evidence from observing other human decisions would suggest that we’d
probably all be dead in days due to our bizarre priority lists. Soon to be mothers tend to be very cautious to not smoke or drink and to take in extra nutrients all in order to care for their growing foetus. Then the baby is born and
everything normally goes back to how it was before for the new mother. And as we grow up and have to look after
ourselves this care for our ever-growing bodies gets thrown out the
window too.
If you were in a house on fire your instinct would probably
be to run as far away as fast as possible from the life threatening circumstance.
It’s our animal instinct. Actions such as smoking is actively and consciously
walking into that burning building. It’s slower but it will inevitably harm
your body and ultimately it’s a death sentence. I often think animals are the
more intelligent creatures because they listen to their bodies, they're happy to feel what
they’re feeling and they do things in their best interest to thrive and stay
alive. Animals only eat the food that they were designed to eat. Although humans can
digest meat if you look at our teeth, as an example, they aren’t similar to those of a true
carnivore, they are blunt and good for nibbling on foods such as vegetables. We
can survive on a 100% plant based diet but we cannot survive on a diet
composed purely of just meat. Interesting… I hope that you aren’t one of these people I
have spoken about in this post, I hope you're somebody who takes care to nourish your body everyday and
respect it for all that it does for you.
love, bean xx
