Tonight, all of our Wednesday night church activities start up for fall. While it seems that summer was impossibly short, it will still be good to get back to the routine.
Last night, we watched some of "Shark Week" on Discovery Channel. For some reason, we just couldn't seem to turn the channel from the program showing the gruesome attacks from the summer of 2001, called by many, the Summer of the Shark. In several places, despite the warnings all over the news about aggressive shark attacks that year, people still went in the water. People still went surfing. People still made choices that threatened life and limb. Many people who were attacked survived, but with deep physical and emotional scars. Several people did NOT survive, and left family and friends with questions and heartache. Dave and I agreed that there is no way whatsoever we would have gone in the water after seeing the warnings.
However, as I think about it this morning, I'm not so sure. All my life I have seen warnings about the dangers of obesity. I know the dangers of high blood pressure, high cholesterol and diabetes - which are aggravated by obesity. I have read the studies on joint pain, immune disorders, female problems - just to name a few. And any one of these things can cause severe injury, or even death, as surely as jumping in the water with a shark that is intent on eating. But I didn't pay attention. Like many people, I assumed that it couldn't and wouldn't happen to me. "I'll start working on this tomorrow."
There is no way to know what might have been prevented if I had not "gone swimming with the sharks" and put on so much weight. All I really know for sure is that I'm out of the water now, and I'm not going back.
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