04/12/2026
We listened to Easter service in the car this year on our way home from spring break. The Pastor made a statement that he wasn’t afraid to die, because he knew exactly where he was going. It was the “getting dead part” that worried him.
The “getting dead part” is what worries me too. It’s my “Why”. It’s the reason I do all the things I do for my health, and my family’s health. The way I see it there are two ways to age and eventually “get dead”.
You can age and eventually die with a life full of doctor’s appointments, joint replacements, lists of prescriptions, chronic diseases, aches, pains, lack of energy, and nursing homes.
Or…
You can age with vitality, energy, and strength. You can travel, enjoy your grand babies and great grand babies. You can age with dignity and on your terms.
Obliviously these things are not 100% in your control. But I fully intend to do everything I can to age the best I can. Because I have worked in hospitals enough to know I don’t want to be there. I have worked with enough older people who are suffering to know I want to avoid the prescriptions and surgeries if I can. I want to be in my 80’s riding horses in the woods with great grand kids and walking on beaches with my husband. Not going from one appointment to the next.
So that’s my “Why”. That’s why I eat clean, healthy, whole food. That’s why I spend time outside every single day. That’s why I’m working on consistently incorporating strength training into my days. It’s why I live a detox lifestyle. That’s why I don’t eat garbage. It’s why I also don’t feed my kids crap. Because as much as I want the better way of “getting dead” for myself and my husband, I want it even more for my babies. I don’t want them growing up with diabetes, heart disease, cognitive issues, other chronic diseases, or cancer. Listening to a doctor say your loved one has cancer is a gut punch and hopelessness I never want anyone else to experience.
I think there are a large number of people in our society who have the Why wrong. If your Why is that you just want to lose weight so you take injections with dangerous side effects, or your Why is that you want to look younger so you inject your your face with fillers and toxins, or your Why is some other superficial type of gain, I’m afraid that down the road, the “getting dead” part is going to be a really terrible journey for you.
Or maybe you are just in survival mode. You are rushing from one thing to the next from the minute you wake up. You are juggling work, a million kids activities, your home, your social life, and your health. You are living off processed food and caffeine, and barely making it through the day. I urge you to evaluate your Why, and what things you can do to align your schedule and activities with your Why. Because life isn’t an emergency, and we weren’t made to live like it’s one.
If you need help focusing on your Why, I’m here. I will hold your hand and help show you the way. You just have to decide what’s important ❤️