In the last few years, trips to my doctor have had a way of shining a glaring spotlight on my mortality. This most recent visit was no exception. The blood pressure numbers were nothing to right home about.
I’m medicine adverse so, after a bit of back and forth with my doc, we decided to see if a life style change might work. I’ve got 90 days to see.
So it is back to meditation and very concerted effort to remove unnecessary stress.
Abbey’s words resonate in my mind
One final paragraph of advice: do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am – a reluctant enthusiast….a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic. Save the other half of yourselves and your lives for pleasure and adventure. It is not enough to fight for the land; it is even more important to enjoy it. While you can. While it’s still here. So get out there and hunt and fish and mess around with your friends, ramble out yonder and explore the forests, climb the mountains, bag the peaks, run the rivers, breathe deep of that yet sweet and lucid air, sit quietly for a while and contemplate the precious stillness, the lovely, mysterious, and awesome space. Enjoy yourselves, keep your brain in your head and your head firmly attached to the body, the body active and alive, and I promise you this much; I promise you this one sweet victory over our enemies, over those desk-bound men and women with their hearts in a safe deposit box, and their eyes hypnotized by desk calculators. I promise you this; You will outlive the bastards.”
I intend to do what I can to outlive the bastards.