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“Live A Little” = Die A Little: Examining Our Oblivious Worship Of Death Through Food
Live like you love yourself. Live like you love your responsibility to yourself.
I am always amazed at the questions people ask when it comes to diet and lifestyle, with the most popular topic centering around finding motivation to eat healthy and exercise.
But it’s like, why do we need to be motivated to keep ourselves healthy and alive when this is our first job as humans? Why are we so eager to waste our lives away stuck on the couch or in the fast food drive-thru, but suddenly we need to get hyped up to take care of our bodies? I never understood how our natural instincts to keep ourselves alive require motivation as if one’s declining health, rapid aging and one foot in the grave isn’t enough inspiration. But I digress.
As much as we claim to fear Death, we love Her so much. With every single bite we take from the artificially flavored, shelf-stable snacks and the “treats” fried in old-ass, rancid seed oils we are flirting with her. With every evening we replace exercise with sitting in bed and watching yet another movie with the same tired, predictable plot we are begging for her to take us away from…this; from the heavy responsibility of loving our bodies enough to keep them functioning optimally.
