Who won’t make it?
Who won’t make it?
Two groups of people won’t make it.
1. Those who kill themselves.
2. Those who let others kill them.
People at war are often the causalities. They die from the wounds, physical and spiritual, that they suffer in ‘war.’
HOLD ON JUST A MINUTE!!
I am not talking about just people in the military or the civilians caught in a crossfire of bombs and bullets from both sides. I am talking about people who are at war with themselves, their families, their bodies, and their experiences. This is where 120andHealthy seeks to bring peace—home to the individual, home to families, home to employees, home to friends.
The people dying prematurely have certain characteristics in common. They fall into ordinary ‘booby-traps.’ The 10 leading causes of death in the United States are largely self-induced.
Tobacco use is the leading preventable cause of death in the US. Cigarette smoking causes an estimated 440,000 deaths every year, including 35,000 from second-hand smoke. To be 120andHealthy it is a good idea not kill yourself or others with tobacco. We can help. Tobacco use is a harmful relationship. Coaching to change your relationship to tobacco is effective.
Excessive alcohol use is attributed with almost 76,000 deaths. These numbers include over 7,600 homicides and almost 7,000 suicides of the instant type.
Heart disease, the number one cause of death in all ages in the US, killing some 685,000 people in 2003, is a lifestyle disease.
Some people haven’t learned to process information with a high degree of awareness. Instead, they approach situations, new and familiar, with a level of awareness similar to primitive man. Primitive man had survival challenges to contend with and didn’t have many choices in their experiences. The conversations over the fires in their caves must have revolved around, “Eat or Be Eaten.” It was very straight-forward with not a lot of ambiguity. Good or bad, alive or dead. Not much room for gray in their thinking. Encountering something new led to “Kill it! And kill it quick” if it wasn’t just like you or if it wasn’t familiar to you.
When we react to situations today with the same ‘fight or flight’ mentality we revert to primitive instincts, lowered awareness, and limited choices. With our improved language skills today, we justify our behavior with unreasoned explanations. “I like it.” “They had it coming.” “I had to.” “There is no enough to go around.” “Because they are different, they’re bad, they’re inferior, they’re not really people like us.”
