Lets see, i'm about to be 32, my hair is continuing its 'cluster and depart' strategy from head, and now my blood is full of fat (does this A- make me look fat?). Apparently my triglycerides are way higher than they should be. In fact a doctor looked at them and said that it looks like its 10 years from a heart attack (or HA as its been dubbed in my house).
Anyha, i mean how, its solution is 2 part at the moment.
Part 1: Exercise
No problem, we got a stationary (sit down) bike in the back room so i don't even have to do much but relax and peddle. Um, i don't remember getting out of complete shape, but the sweat that beads up on my forehead from just pressing the Mode button isn't a good sign. I'm up to 7 miles in about 25 minutes, and this week i actually did the exercise all week. Thats really been the hardest part (aside from the physical part) is having the will to stick to it.
Part 2: The Meds
Fish oil....nothing more, nothing less. Just pill form fish oil via prescription. Sure there are over the counter fish oil pills you can buy, but they are less pure (as if pure fish oil weren't bad enough, to know there is 'un' pure versions...ugh) and the side effects are more pronounced in them. What side effects? Oh, i didnt mention it already? Well, apparently these side effects can include nausea, belching, bad breath and sometimes diarrhea. YEAH!!!! But, they are "rare" to start with and if they do appear (so far no sign of them) they fade after a few weeks.
Part 3: Stupid Lettuce
ok, so there are 3 parts, not just 2. The third being the reduction in consumption of some of my favorite foods. So if you'll humour me and read (or sing) the following to the tune of "these are a few of my favourite things"...
Big juicey burgers with french fry potatoes
mexican goodness in an overstuffed tacos
corn dogs with beer battered onion rings
these are few of my favorite things
loads of great cheeses that make my mouth smile
greasy italian foods all stacked in a pile
chocolate and cheesecake, my internal bling
these are few of my favorite things
I can't have these
I must eat less
and this makes me sad
i wish i could eat all of my favorite things
but it makes my heart feel bad
The feel of book in your hand and the "fffwit" sound as you turn the page...the unsuspected joy across someone's face when they checked their mailbox and found a letter from an old friend...
These and many others are just some of the things we as a culture and species are losing. Email has replaced regular mail and in doing so it has destroyed the excitement of communication. So much is connected with that tangible element. In the mail's case, you lose the effort that was put behind it, that personal touch you got to witness in each letter. The speed and ease of email has forced it to become a "without thought" function that we all just do. It's like breathing.
Reading in general has gone that way also. And now with products like the Kindle by Amazon (which i admit is really cool), all need to physically own and pick up to read a book is gone. I fear that with that we will lose the passion and commitment a story/book deserves when being read. Instead of delving so deep in that your mind even makes up details the author didn't describe, instead we are soon to become people who read books at fast speeds, and more to pass the time than to enjoy it.
Even just hanging out with friends & family have become a victim of this loss of tangibility. Granted lives are busy (i'm hugely aware of this), but people keep in touch so easily now with IM, Facebook, email, etc. that we don't have as big of a drive to schedule time to hang out...or visit. I know I myself find that to be the case, and I accept it because of the hectic life going on around me and all of us...but I often wish it were like back in the day. Instead we've moved so face in our technology and our 'wants' that we aren't even living in the "now" world...but rather in the "next" world. It's making us not appreciate what we have and how far we've come, and making us forget where it use to be...we as a whole just want to know what's next, when is the newer, faster, better version coming out?
But, maybe thats just me...thoughts? feel free to write it in a letter. =)
