Eating Healthy is a lot like Algebra

Maintaining a good diet is a lot lot algebra in that it is something that may never save your life, but when it does, you will be so thankful for. Buuuut, neither health or mathematics is or ought to be motivated by that reward anyway.

My next sentance will seem to have nothing to do with either math or health, and that is exactly why it is included. I understand why Tess did such a gruesome thing. That sentance is like algebra, it seems entirely irrelevant, and yet, my health and sanity require that I vent such things occassionally, instead of allowing them to fester.

I used to be outraged that fellow students would even dare to.consider algebra insignificant. Learning to find what we do not know by using what we do know seemed extremely useful and even necessary because we cannot know all things, so learning that it is ok to just assign a variable is very significant.

There is an entire subculture of health nuts who become so obsessed with being physically healthy that they are infact unhealthy, but a wise person can see how they do not represent the whole. This is a lot like any group of people that are recognized by their extremists.

True story here, I was hospitalized with a rare illness. A displaced infection attacked my brain and nervous system. It seemed like nothing would "save" me. Most attempts failed and I was slipping, but an extreme measure was taken and though there was no pattern of success to follow and most assumed that I would just die, I fought off the infection with the help of the extreme drug, most doctors were shocked and several commented that it was due to my health code that my body was able to endure and survive, and that a typical human body would have perished. So, yes. I do believe that being aware of how you treat your body is important and that being healthy can save your life.

I never worked this in, but wanted to remind that health is more than what you eat, and that whatever you put in will come out. So, please, put the best things in, this includes music and video, too and reaches to our friends. A friend recently said that time had taught that there are people who make you happy and people who bring you down. We are intended to be happy, which is to say healthy.