Building a wood house?

[Afgan]

Drinking in moderation thins the blood and helps circulation. I have been drinking virtually every day since I was 18 and I'm now 45. I also have been working out at the gym since I was 20.

BTW, I do like your helpful and positive attitude.

I spent all my life in a competitive very athletic team sport that requires both strength, explosiveness and stamina. And I keep playing even now being much older than you are. Not just a comfortable work out in the gym. So I can feel even the subtle changes in my shape and condition immediately.

I use this feeling as a gauge to make self tuning right away. In all departments - nutrition, sleep pattern, environment, liquid intake, emotional charge of my interaction and communication with other people, trainning and working out.

I am not into body building nor modelling, so my pics are irrelevant. Especially considering the fact that two most loved muscle groups by typical gym goers - biceps and pecs are useless (and even countereffective) for practically any real-life sport or phisical activity. But they look so nice when big.

Thank you for your kind and supportive words! They will come back to you and will bring you twice their positive charge.

 

[dv8]

Here I know plenty of people who do not drink becuase they just do not like it.
Drinking will destroy some peoples' lives yet for others it seems to have few long term effects.

i rarely drink. i simply feel bad even with a small amount of alcohol. and probably i had my own share already when i was in high school
but my granfather drank daily, mostly moonshine he made himself. he died at ninety something. no cancer, btw.

 

[Afgan]

i agree as far as long life goes. i do not fancy being old, thank you very much. as far as strenght and the lack of pain goes, afgan, this is often a question of pure luck: you may have an accident or suffer from disease that shows later in life. and you can still get cancer no matter what, hell, you may have it already and not know it since you do not trust doctors.

but "i want every one to be like me" sounds really maniac, i am sorry to say. i do not want to be like you. or like anyone else. i would like to remain like me.

Right. You are correct. We cannot control our destiny 100%. But at least we must do whatever is in our humble powers.

To be like me means only to know the things that are really good for you and to follow them, making yourself good, not bad. Nothing more. To have all you life decisions (big and small) informed and made to your advantage. Not be influenced or forced on you by some ill interests and will.

If you can share something positive and valuable that I do not possess yet, I will be thankfull and willing to be like you in it. Simple.

 

[Afgan]

i rarely drink. i simply feel bad even with a small amount of alcohol. and probably i had my own share already when i was in high school
but my granfather drank daily, mostly moonshine he made himself. he died at ninety something. no cancer, btw.

A very typical mistake in conclusions. To judge from a number of years in life, and not from the life potential used.

High chances are that your grandfather genetically had a very high life potential. And if not damaging it but help - he`d live up to 105 instead of 90sh.

I explained this confusion to people probably several hundred times already if not more. A very common misconception.

 

[dv8]

Right. You are correct. We cannot control our destiny 100%. But at least we must do whatever is in our humble powers.

To be like me means only to know the things that are really good for you and to follow them, making yourself good, not bad. Nothing more. To have all you life decisions (big and small) informed and made to your advantage. Not be influenced or forced on you by some ill interests and will.

If you can share something positive and valuable that I do not possess yet, I will be thankfull and willing to be like you in it. Simple.

oh man, i like how this thread went from wood to zen

frankly, i cannot go to extraordinary lenghts in order to fix unfixable - life itself. moderation was good for aristotle and it is good for me. i do some unhealthy (i love soda drinks) and some healthy but i am not obsessed with living well. maybe you can let go a little sometimes worry less about asbestos! :cheeky:

 

[dv8]

High chances are that your grandfather genetically had a very high life potential. And if not damaging it but help - he`d live up to 105 instead of 90sh.

but maybe if he did not drink he would ride his bike along the road rather than sleep in the ditch and die at 30 crashed by a truck carrying potatoes?