Yesterday, had a close to all-day no stress experience. Suddenly realized how enjoyable that is and how healthy.
Realized that I should become much more conscious of how much stress I’m experiencing at any given time, and dial it back when it gets too high. Too much stress is just so debilitating for one’s mental health.
Biden, the neocons in the State Department, and NATO with their aggression pushing the Ukraine proxy war have us on the brink of nuclear war. Providing Ukraine with longer-range missiles that can hit well inside of Russia was the step too far. Ask yourself what the US would do if it were being hit with such long-range missiles? We would retaliate against those countries that provided the missiles.
The woke crowd used to push the narrative that we don’t want Trump’s finger on the nuclear button. Turns out Trump was the peace president who nixed the State Department’s hope for aggression toward Iran. But instead this woke president Biden has brought us to the brink.
We are in an extremely dangerous situation now relative to Russia, and yet all we get from the woke media is silence about that imminent danger. They don’t want you to know. It doesn’t fit the pro-Ukraine, anti-Russia narrative. Proxy wars are supposed to be painless for the West.
Had there been no Sulla, the Romans would not have experienced Caesar and the ensuing civil war. Because of Sulla, the Senate was afraid that Caesar would take control of Rome with his army from Gaul — he would cross the Rubicon (an illegal action) and advance on Rome — as in fact he did.
But also the senators and the aristocratic class as a whole were well aware of the precedent set by Sulla of drawing up a list of his enemies to be summarily executed. So with Caesar, the senators would have feared for their lives as well.
Ironically, Caesar’s actual bent was to show clemency toward his enemies, but the Senators could not have known this.
My dreamland breaks down as follows: 10% dread, 10% joy, 45% astonishment not in a good way, 35% anxiety. The dread category starts out as astonishment, evolved into anxiety, and ends up dread. Joy can start off as astonishment but it gets resolved, and this leads to joy.
On balance, most nights are a negative spin, not a positive one. I suppose this means I find life to be challenging.
It would be best if Russia were to unleash their full force and put an end to this war in Ukraine. It would be best even for the Ukrainians. It would be best even for the US and NATO, as we could finally pull back from the possibility of nuclear war.
Russia could end this in a matter of a few weeks, if not days.
Health is a choice, not an accident.
They will tell you prostate cancer is inevitable if you live long enough, but is it? There are populations in the world with very high rates of prostate cancer, but there are also populations where the rates are negligible.
Trying to do something about muscle loss in old age. But I’m very late to the game. Now I learn that muscle loss in old age begins in earnest at age 50, and from that point on, one loses 3% of muscle if you do nothing about it. That was 26 years ago without any weight training/resistance training at all — just aerobics, which doesn’t really do much for muscle loss. You have to really stress the muscle to preserve it.
So I’ve joined a gym and am now doing weight training/resistance training every other day — 30 minutes a session, and 10 minutes in their sauna. Discovered early on that you don’t want to do 2 days in a row because you have to give the muscles at least 48 hours to recovery. Will be sore the next day, but that goes down a bit to a tolerable level.
No way I can make up for those lost 26 years of muscle loss, but I don’t want to lose any more and turn into jelly — a feeble and accident-prone old man.
They tell me that weight training/resistance training is also very important for maintaining bone health — plus taking a calcium supplement with Vitamin D before bedtime.
Old age is turning out to be a challenge. You are either up to it or not — your choice.
Pleasant to come across someone who is obviously a very happy person. Not that common. When this does happen, one can feel a kind of wave of joy passing from that person through you. Like the person is able to impart pure delight, if only for a brief moment in the encounter.
Learn from your mistakes.
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