“Living itself is unhealthy, everybody had died on it so far.” This is a common wisdom that on the one hand cannot be our only orientation, but on the other hand gives a clear direction to our thinking: Living is worth it and therefore it is normal to take care of our health, consider the adequacy of risks we undertake etc.

We often meet with argumentation about healthy living and advertisement pictures of happy, cheerful faces – sometimes wild teenagers who have just let loose, sometimes cute mothers with even cuter babies or stable and still flexible elder people who achieve healthy life with the help of the right supportive remedies. However, this can have negative impact because health is offered here as a product related with success and social prestige.

 

To live healthily, however, means in fact something else – especially adequacy, the ability to avoid the position which cannot be kept and which is therefore in its essence unhealthy. That means not to be “free, cool and in” all the time, or a happy, successful object intended for exhibition and the admiration of others, who breaks down every time something goes wrong.

To live healthily is connected with taking the responsibility for oneself, with the ability to accept even the things which are not pleasant, to adapt to the situation where we cannot decide the schedule of events, not to worry when we can’t succeed and we feel something is beyond us. To live healthily means not to look for distraction from your life, otherwise boring, in pretence and in artificially induced adrenaline moments, but on the other hand to learn to act in situations which we don’t create, control and which are not created only with this purpose.

Living itself is not easy and it is quite difficult and tricky  to deal with it somehow, even for those who are healthy and are not disabled somehow from the birth. We must include them when we think about health.