Summary
Being healthy is such a privilege. We often treat our health as a given and dont pay attention to the needs of the body. Diseases, accidents, and random events do affect us and can happen to anyone, but on a daily basis how we treat our bodies is often less than ideal.
The human body is amazing - it is capable of great things. But we dont treat it the way we should and we often hold ourselves to very low standards.
And this hypocrisy or the lack of concern for our own health appears even more drastic when children are involved - we want them to eat healthy, exercise, sleep on time, dont spend time on phones and screens, but somehow we are incapable of setting those rules for ourselves.
A lot of what happens in life is random. Just probabilities, constantly changing, and we are affected by things which are both likely or unlikely. We are just bad at calculating risks and brain is just poor at doing maths. Which is why we are always surprised when something unlikely happens to us. Particularly when it comes to health.
Lifestyle problems and diseases have become so widespread that they have now almost acceptable as a baseline. Diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholestrol, obesity are just so commonplace that we accept it as normal. And i feel the worst part here is that all of such issues are almost entirely avoidable if we can amend our lifestyles.
But we dont like lifestyle changes - we like short fixes. Eating a medicine or pill everyday is much more convenient to us instead of changing our food habits. Thats easily explained by cognitively miser brains - we love the short cuts. Doing a ridiculous diet for 3 months is far more plausible than to make simple everyday changes.
While its obvious why we like short cuts - i find it amazing that we can be so blind to the adversity that comes with poor lifestyle and habits.