I’ve noticed one of the unforeseen consequences of committing to a healthy lifestyle as you age is seeing your friends, get old and sick and die around you. Everybody makes a different choices, and who knows what’s gonna go wrong and take you, but you have to be prepared to be the last ones standing both mentally and physically if you choose that path.
Just remember that Jim Fixx, the jogging guru, died of a heart attack at age 52 while out for his daily run, whereas I, a life-long amalgam of bad habits, am still here at age 70.
Life has a particularly twisted sense of humor.