The Choice Is Ours

A retired couple, living in Florida, were sitting on their front porch one evening. The wife was just watching the people go by. The husband was reading a book on physiology. The wife turned to her husband and said, “George, let’s go inside and watch the late show.” To which George replied, “I’m too tired. Do you realize that today my heart beat 1O3,389 times? My blood Travelled 168,OOO miles. I breathed 23,OOO times. I inhaled 483 cubic feet of air. I moved 75O major muscles. And I exercised 7 million brain cells. I’m exhausted. I’m going to bed.” All that work! Just to stay alive, in one day! And if that isn’t enough to make you want to go to bed, imagine that you have been conditioned to believe that you are only a grain of sand with little or no control over your fate; that you are exposed each day to events that drain your self-esteem; that you are inundated constantly with the…