“We study health, and we deliberate upon our meats and drink and air and exercises, and we hew and we polish every stone that goes to that building; and so our health is a long and regular work. But in a minute a cannon batters all, overthrows all, demolishes all; a sickness unprevented for all our diligence, unsuspected for all our curiosity, nay, undeserved, if we consider only disorder, summons us, seizes us, possesses us, destroys us in an instant.”
I don’t know the man who wrote this quote, but he does have a hidden point. It’s good to eat healthy as you grow older, it’s good to get a checkup every few months, check up on your troublespots and what not. But to obsess about your health is like to obsess about any desire or want–unhealthy. Don’t lose yourself in the process.
Being sick for a few months (from stomach ailments to viral infections to the flu) sucks, especially when you strive for productivity and action. But sometimes it’s good to take a break, to rest, to repair, to reorient. Life might be short, but you can still accomplish plenty in a lifetime if you take time to relax. The world will not stop if you take a week off to ease your troubles. There are plenty of ways to make up for lost time. But sickness must be stamped out before you can move on with the tasks at hand.
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