Our Current Narrative Around Health
Of all things, health should be a high priority for people. It however, is not always seen that way. For many, health is put on the back burner to make room for other desires. It isn’t a value that is held very high for most, at least until it gets bad.
We’re a generation of not seeing the value in health until it begins to decline. We don’t want to be healthy, but we want to get healthy once it becomes an issue. You can see this narrative when individuals justify doing crazy shit to your body while you are young.
“Oh don’t worry, you’re young.”
However, we hit 40 and have a midlife crisis because we haven’t taken care of ourselves for years.
We don’t have the view that this is a life long pursuit. Only when it becomes a nuisance is it really seen as a priority.
Enter The Quick Fix
Our health becomes a bother, and now we want to fix it. However, we don’t really want to keep it fixed. We just want to do whatever we can to get healthy-ish so that we can go back to what we were doing. We’ve ingrained those bad behaviors as something we enjoy even when they literally destroy us.
So we seek out the quick fix. The diet that promises fast results with minimal effort. We do all of the keto-ing, juicing, and starving that we can in an attempt to lose weight and be “healthy”. We follow these ridiculous programs hoping to get results. We sometimes do. But they don’t last.
We rebound, because hell, we deserve to go back to what we enjoy. So we end up gaining the weight back, maybe even gaining more than we started with. Welcome to the never-ending feedback loop from hell.
This eventually leads us to try yet another quick fix to get the results we want. Again, results we don’t really value. We just want to buy some more time to enjoy doing those other things.
The results come. They took a little longer than before, but we did it. Time to go back to the good ole ways of living. Right back into that feedback loop from hell.
This is the current narrative around health. None of that even remotely wanted to just be healthy or feel better. None of that came back to wanting to do things with your kids or live life…
