Constantly On The Watch

A retired couple were sitting in their “rec” room one evening. The wife was watching the nightly news on TV; the husband was reading a book on physiology. When the news broadcast ended, the wife turned to her husband and said, “Let’s stay up and watch the Late Show.” The husband put down the physiology book and said, “I’m much too tired. Do you realize that today my heart beat over one hundred and three thousand times? And my blood traveled about one hundred sixty-eight thousand miles. I moved seven hundred fifty major muscles. I breathed twenty three thousand times and inhaled twenty eight hundred cubic feet of air. Plus I exercised seven million brain cells. I’m exhausted! I’m going to bed!

All that work in one day, just to stay alive! And if that isn’t enough to make you want to go to bed, think of all the negative garbage you are exposed to each day on TV and in the newspapers. Then there…