…..and inherently well-intentioned people kept advising her to “Slow down some…..you‘ve gotta take it easier on our body…..slow down some, for God’s sake…..you’ve gotta take it a little bit easier…..slow down some, okay?!…..you’re foolishly putting your life at risk by trying to do too much at one time!” And I would say to that: Slow down for what?! People grow older, not younger, and their bodies deteriorate over time; they never magically regenerate and get better and more healthful as time elapses. From a strictly logical standpoint, slowing down is the WORST advice you could ever offer anyone as they grow older simply because that is tantamount to wasting some of your remaining relative youth merely to elongate that period of time when you are physically less able and less vital. Slow down some? HELL NO!!! Speed up if anything, because life is short and getting shorter with each succeeding day, and inarguably the best time you have available to you is that time immediately in front of you now, not some nebulous time off in the unguaranteed future that will inarguably be worse from a wellness perspective and offer far fewer possibilities for genuine happiness than those that are currently available. Therefore don’t slow down today, okay? Rather, punch down on that accelerator pedal harder than ever and speed up in your later years to the extent your body will physically allow. As a general rule, one should invariably strive to maximize the present at the expense of the future, especially given the fact the future is a wholly amorphous, uncertain entity that can suddenly and catastrophically disappear when one least expects it to happen…..
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