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Originally Posted by Jack Moroney
Yup, and I am the poster child for that statement! So grasshopper it's like this, your brain and your body are out of harmony. Your brain, thinking that all it has to do is come up with ideas and direct actions for you to take based on things that make it feel happy tells you that you have not aged, are still immortal, and nothing is impossible. Your body finally succumbs to its inability to achieve those grand ideas and lofty goals and sends pain back to your brain as a way of telling it that actions, not ideas, have consequences. Your brain withdraws and waits for you to heal, sudues the memory of the most recent pain, adds ego to the equation and the cycle repeats itself with your body sending even more severe pain back to your brain again. So in the real world harmony is achieved by learning that you are going to get stung everytime you kick over the beehive or figuring out other ways to destroy that beehive so as not to get stung. Asymetric warfare works. Recognize your limitations and maximize your strengths to achieve realistic goals.
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I have to agree with what you have said here Sir! I also find that in time the Doctors with whom you deal with will attempt to restrict some of the things you may want to do, or do on a regular basis. One must decide on their own, if they are going to heed such prohibatations and/or changes to their life styles.
My doctor has ordered me not to SCUBA dive, based on a heart problem (extra beat, etc.) I have decided that I will continue to dive; however, will limit it to tropical (Warm water) diving and discontinue cold water diving in my own AO. I decided to stop the cold water diving because of the extra equipment, etc.
Over all, my decision to continue to dive was based on we are all going to die (No one leaves here alive.) I could die from the same heart problem, behind the wheel of my car or anywhere. If I die while diving, at least die doing something I love to do! I was 75 years old yesterday, so time marches on!
One thing that I would warn people in retirement of, is allowing yourself to get inactive and overweight, which will cause you many problems. (Couch Potato. ) One of which would be type II diabetes. I have many retired friends, that have come down with type II diabetes, since their retirement. Some have lost legs and feet from the disease. One can also have vision problems, strokes and heart attacks as well.