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[NotCranky]

Life, all our goals and ambitions, loves and fights are like playing basketball,often times more like street basket ball then a well officiated and clean game. Sometimes you get an air ball , some times you clank it off the rim and some times it’s “nothing but the bottom of the net”. Sometimes you have to play cheaters and get dirty refs and bad calls just like in life.

Having heart for life is as easy as having heart for playing basketball which is pretty easy. No depressive tailspins are required. Chin up. The worst that can happen is that you die on the court.

[scaredyclassic]

i just can’t get with the basketball metaphor. ive never quite played my heart out. i always keep something in reserve. Im also very scared of injury. for instance, i wouldnever play in a softball game, because people go nuts and try to make the most of their effort, and their day, and often end up breaking a clavicle or tearing a meniscus.

i am more calculating, taking my life measured out in teaspoons, assessing risks, lifting in small increments weights with strict form and in fear of injury. i hate getting my finger jammed on a basketball.

I used to play all the time as a kid. the NY knicks were so inspiring in the 70s. I had willis reeds autograph but im not sure where it went.. but im slowish and kind of have zero court sense or physical awareness of what is going on.

it’s justa blur of bodies and people with their arms waving about. in that sense, perhaps basketball is a good metaphor for life, as it often seems like justa bunch of people shuffling for position and yelling for the ball. or knocking you in the jaw and claiming it was an “accident”.

im not actually ina depressive tailspin. the book was hilarious, the vacation was great, my nature is my nature…

my cholesterol probably went up a few points in SF. dammit.

[scaredyclassic]

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2014/04/05/study_depression_increases_heart_failure_risk_by_40.html

ayiyiyi. here’s the real risk.

depression crushes the heart quicker than cholesterol ever could

[scaredyclassic]

call me cynical, but i suspect that anyone who claims to be chipper is in fact deeply depressed.

i guess when i hear “make the most” of something, i think of those tours where people are shuttling about a place as quickly as possible to take in as many sights as possible to have completed and done as much as possible and therefore have maxiized their vacation time. I have always felt that to be profoundly wrong. yet it seems to be popular.

yet that is our fundamental urge; to get, have, use, consume, see, eat, and generally take in as much of the good stuff as possible, and maximize our experiences and possessions, whetehr it’s european tourist sites, vacation time, cash in the bank, family togetehrness, collectibles, whatever.

the most is better than the least.

but im not persuaded. the least shall become a thousand. maybe it’s better after all to make the least of it!

[NotCranky]

Doing stress and worry a little too habitually are probably the worst things I do to my body and I think it will take years off my life., maybe get my heart like you mention …not chipper.

I hope I can make it to my youngest son’s 30th…that’s only 23 years. It looks like only cancer or being murdered or an accident could take me down at this point. Not cholesterol. I think I have gout in one toe, a sure sign that the end is near?

It’s pretty much impossible to compare ones inner workings to another’s . I know people who take anti-depressants and I think their childhood, and adult lives have always been more positive than mine.

[scaredyclassic]

Gout: the rich man’s disease.

[NotCranky]

[quote=scaredyclassic]Gout: the rich man’s disease.[/quote]
O.k. So it’s not gout then.

Probably tendonitis

[FlyerInHi]

Not playing your heart out is better for your cholesterol and staying in shape.

You want to be placid and zen for the rest of your life. Keep on going and going and going. Never get excited over anything especially food.

People who play their heart out would probably pig out at the buffet or drink a 6 pack of beer in one sitting.

[scaredyclassic]

[quote=Blogstar][quote=scaredyclassic]Gout: the rich man’s disease.[/quote]
O.k. So it’s not gout then.

Probably tendonitis[/quote]

ow. tendonitis. gout might be better.

[scaredyclassic]

[quote=FlyerInHi]Not playing your heart out is better for your cholesterol and staying in shape.

You want to be placid and zen for the rest of your life. Keep on going and going and going. Never get excited over anything especially food.

People who play their heart out would probably pig out at the buffet or drink a 6 pack of beer in one sitting.[/quote]

a 6 pack is too much? probably. depends how long the sitting is.

[moneymaker]

Maybe a big beer company will do a study that proves beer lowers bad cholesterol, then I could feel better about drinking my Samuel Adams. Costco has a variety pack of Sam Adams that is pretty good.

[NotCranky]

I recover from tendonitis pretty well. I am not too hobbled…can be on my feet all day and work and play at anything ….it’s just there.

[CA renter]

[quote=FlyerInHi]Not playing your heart out is better for your cholesterol and staying in shape.

You want to be placid and zen for the rest of your life. Keep on going and going and going. Never get excited over anything especially food.

People who play their heart out would probably pig out at the buffet or drink a 6 pack of beer in one sitting.[/quote]

We’re all going to die. Not a single one of us will avoid it, no matter how hard we try. I’ve seen too many people who were obsessed about their health die at a young age.

Eat, drink, and be merry…relish every moment with every ounce of passion you can muster because it may well be your last. Just try to do everything in relative moderation. Might as well enjoy it while you’re here because you can’t take it with you when you die. 🙂

I’m learning this as I go because I used to worry about everything, especially health/life/death (still do), but have realized that worry will not extend life nor make it better in any way. Watched too many people who ate fully organic, exercised excessively, etc…and died way, way too young. We cannot control fate; it is a difficult lesson to learn.

[FlyerInHi]

relative enjoyment from food and drink depends on your personality. you can change your personality and what you enjoy, just like you can change your blood. It can be done.

I enjoy a steamed fish and veggie meal more than a dinner of ribs and fries. To me, there’s no negative to having good blood.

[scaredyclassic]

[quote=CA renter][quote=FlyerInHi]Not playing your heart out is better for your cholesterol and staying in shape.

You want to be placid and zen for the rest of your life. Keep on going and going and going. Never get excited over anything especially food.

People who play their heart out would probably pig out at the buffet or drink a 6 pack of beer in one sitting.[/quote]

We’re all going to die. Not a single one of us will avoid it, no matter how hard we try. I’ve seen too many people who were obsessed about their health die at a young age.

Eat, drink, and be merry…relish every moment with every ounce of passion you can muster because it may well be your last. Just try to do everything in relative moderation. Might as well enjoy it while you’re here because you can’t take it with you when you die. 🙂

I’m learning this as I go because I used to worry about everything, especially health/life/death (still do), but have realized that worry will not extend life nor make it better in any way. Watched too many people who ate fully organic, exercised excessively, etc…and died way, way too young. We cannot control fate; it is a difficult lesson to learn.[/quote]

can’t control fate: but I don’t skydive or have unprotected sex with third world country prostitutes. I mean not skydiving doesn’t guarantee I won’t be hit by a bus. But I still don’t need to add to my risk profile. I like to think of having a risk budget. Sometimes I spend a bit riding my bicycle without a helmet. Still don’t want to go nuts and overspend on risk by say taking up snake handling or smoking a pipe. Even if we cannot control fate we can budget risk. We are all the Actuaries of our sad little existences

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