Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Living a Healthy Life vs. Living an Abundant Life

I would exchange anything most valuable in my life for a Healthy and an Abundant life. However, the reality is that the two lives seemed to be poles apart at the same time can be synonymous with each other that some might deduce that the two lives can live as one in harmony. In my point of view, I am still confused since living abundantly would mean living indulgently with all your vices and desires to the fullest extent that may later on be your downfall.

But let us define first the two lives. Being healthy means free or away from illnesses, allergies and injuries while abundance means enjoying all the things, privileges, benefits that life can offer. Being healthy also would include mental as well as physical thing. Living healthy can be maintained by eating the right food (take note, ‘Right Food’). Eating RIGHT food may not be the food that you want to eat at your preferred time and day. Living healthy would also mean not doing things unhealthy but you sometimes crave to do something before you die like lighting a cigarette after a grueling meeting with hard headed colleagues, or eating roasted pork with gusto after starving in a vegetarian swamp for 12 months or indulge in mixed drinks with no umbrellas at some cocktail bars after having debate with your parents on whether or not you have chosen the right girl/boy to be with for the rest of your life.

Abundance may mean material as well as psychological thing. However, one cannot satisfy material and psychological wants at the same time. Having material things in an abundant manner may be quite contradicting to having psychological satisfaction at the same moment. Having material things, I believe, would just induce more longing to have more material things, thus creating psychological need for more satisfaction or higher level of satisfaction that can sometimes be straining to the person and other significant people, if not indulge in immediate future. Some obstacles along the way of having the need satisfaction may also create violent or mental discomfort that can be perilous to the significant others or hazardous to one’s own self.

Therefore, I conclude it is dangerous to your health to live abundantly. Hope I did set the record straight or have I confused you further?

Again, I therefore conclude that living a healthy life does not mean living life of abundance. You cannot have all you want if you want to live healthy until you die.
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