Happiness begins with the ones and twos
The life we live today ticks over at an alarming pace, our circuit boards
are still wired circa 500AD, pile on the fact that no one actually knows what
we're eating these days. Enough to burn even the best designed superconductor
and we're nowhere near that perfect.
It's time to slow the organism down and work on a research project. You set
the parameters, study principle, heck throw in a peanut butter-jam sandwich on
rye if you like. The subject is you, senior researcher, you, it's all you. Only
one participant. You!
Slow down, take a deep breath.... forget about making partner for now. Meet
you and press the 'help' button in the menu section. Now you are ready to go.
Learn something different about yourself: push out of the rut. Get a cup of
Chai tea (no sugar, no milk) and savour life, taste it and like beer, it'll
grow on you. Life tastes horrible and therein lies the whole point; you'll
never know true pleasure until you scrape the bottom of the barrel, get your
heart broken, get fired, stub your toe etc. Survives one, or better yet, more
of these and you are well on your way to acing Life Appreciation 101. What
doesn't kill you...
We are animals, much as we'd like to argue to the contrary. Only gimmick is
a pair of apposable thumbs and a brain we rarely use. A sedentary life fueled
by convenience robs us of the chance to enjoy a machine put together better
than a Skyline GTR. We tinker with it, to death at times. Take out the low
profile, sport contact tyres; replace the hi-revving 3.8 with a fiat 1.1;
leaded petrol, no oil changes. While we're at it, who needs a performance
exhaust anyway (toss it out).
We do the equivalent to our body through a lifetime and this piles stress
on the system, which in turn stresses an under exercised, malnourished brain to
come up with solutions. Lucky for you, there's a quick-fix: put aside the rest
of your life and start today; a lifestyle change!
Improve blood flow to your organs, use your muscles. Get your kidneys and
gut working, better to dispose of the garbage; spelled- toxins and metabolic
waste products. This helps your immune system to function properly too (your
gut is an important component of your immunity), helps nutrient delivery for
organ function. Your waste disposal efficiency is paramount to your well being
and avoiding profound mental dis-ease. When the kidneys and gut are happy, you
are well on your way to 'speccing' out your machine. It frees up room for your
brain to swing a bat and hit a homerun each innings, even with all the stresses
pounding you all day; your liver crunches faster, what with the efficient blood
flow. There's your quick fix: get off the couch, eat 'normal' food for once and
slowly, slowly work your way back to normal.
With a lifetime to get this right, you will gradually work on decreasing
your nicotine, prozac, fast-food dosages. The side-effects sometimes
occasionally mask the perceived benefits; so much so, you'll be needing another
crutch just to survive adverse effects of your first crutch.
Take things nice and easy, relearn how to live your life with baby steps,
forget the rat race. Take your foot off the gas, run, eat, sleep. Next thing
you are quitting your job to start a 'green' company, your washboard abs land
you on the cover of the 'fit CEO' edition of Men's Health, and 5 years down
Doodle buys your company for a billion quid. The rest of us are wondering how
so silly an idea as recycling burnt toothpaste casings can start a bidding war
between giant multinationals. Meanwhile...
You are sipping cognac on your yacht, off the coast of Monaco, smiling at
Miss December. All because your number 1 and 2 were effecient.
Monkgoe E. Sefanyetso
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