It is reality that we were born to die. The average life span of a man is 76 years. A woman’s is slightly higher. It is with vice free living that we may better our chances to live and even surpass our life span. We all want to live a long life no normal person desires to die at an early age. One way to achieve and increase chances of longevity is, vice-free living.
Some folks live their lives in a day-to-day haphazard manner not worried about tomorrow. They seem to have be unconcerned with the consequences of the vices that might diminish their life span.
They are a lot of vices that can rob us of our health as well as our freedom. We must be aware, and watchful for the wrong
Although no one is promised tomorrow however we can make the odds better by having any vices to distract us in doing what we are born to live out our life doing what is right.
As a former smoker I know how hard it is very to quit. Some say that is easier to get off drugs than nicotine. After smoking for 40 years I did quit,and I did it without any patches are or special programs. I did it ‘Cold Turkey.’ I made up my mind that I wanted to breathe better at night. I wanted to not wake up at night gasping for air. I wanted this vice gone from my life. I was successful in my challenge to stop smoking. It has been 6 years! Although I never really had a problem with alcohol, and only drank beer occasionally, I still felt the need to stop that vice also. The beer drinking stopped shortly after that.
When I was 19, I could not foresee myself as age 58. Now with only four years away from retirement, I can look back in retrospect to when I was 19. It was a time when I was not as wrinkled, or heavy as I am now. It was a time when I was still somewhat naive, and I was not vice free. I was indulging in the pleasure of smoking, drinking, and other frailties that made my life a hodgepodge calamity. At this stage in my life, I was only concerned in with pursuing things that were deemed taboo by society. I was not a bad person per se, just immature and clueless to what I needed to be doing to be headed down the straight and narrow road to clean living.
With guidance from friends and family members, I overcame these demons as I matured and became aware of the aspects of clean living, and the positive effect it made in my life.
Everyone should be concerned with the kind of living that makes our bodies healthier, the kind of living that gives us a better chance to live our lives in happiness in health and good will. Our body needs vice free living to maintain a radiant soul. Even though our soul is not harmed by growing older, it does need assurance that we are doing what we can to live out our lives as healthy as we can possibly can.
It is not by chance or luck that we wake up every morning to live another day. It is because of god’s blessing. I appreciate every day I awake and am allowed to live. I look upon each day as a gift. I want to honor God by staying away from vices that could harm the body and as well as the soul. Vice-free-living, honors god. It is the least we all can do to live an harmonious life.