That’s so difficult to do. When you ain’t worrying about your health, there are many other things that makes you worry. Trying to set all that aside to focus on your mental state about how you live on a day-to-day basis is real challenging.
I put my 10.5 year old dog down this summer because of cancer. I kid you not, I did everything I knew to do to prevent it. He ate very healthy and we exercised regularly. The day I took him to the vet, the nurses were surprised to see such a old and big (120 pounds) dog look so healthy. I was still running/walking him two miles a couple times of week. At his peak, we would run 5 to 8 miles straight. The most we’ve ever done was 13 miles.
I take him for a routine check up (senior dog exam). The doc comes back in the room and tells me his stomach was tight and she wanted to do an image scan. Come back and this dude has a massive tumor in his stomach. He had no symptoms of this cancer. He had no signs of anything. We were still running/walking a couple times a week. And that day I had to tell my wife and daughter that he wasn’t coming back home.
This was literally a couple of days after my father’s 1 year death date.
The lesson I learned that day was I can’t prevent shit from happening. No matter what I do, no matter how much I watch what I eat, and live a healthy life, I ain’t above being taken out for whatever reason.
At best, I just want to try and give myself the best quality of life. And even then, some people are born and destined to catch the short end of the life stick no matter what. It was the will of the universe/god/energy or whatever higher force of nature that is beyond or understanding.
