While you focus on making $, live healthy.

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What does it mean to live a healthy life? I did not understand this for over 20 years of my life. All I think was — “hustle man and become super-rich”. I did not know — “if you are not healthy you will not have the strength, ability and all it takes to be rich”. I did not know it is necessary to sleep or eat healthily. I read about living a healthy life, but I never took it seriously. I was 100% healthy despite how I used to do, and I never believed I can have health challenges. But 3 years ago, I got sick, and the Doctor told me what to eat and what not to eat and I was like — “Mike, you just f**ked up.” Here is the thing — you don’t have to learn the hard way. You don’t want to have the feeling of, “when I was very strong”. It could be depressing and you could hit and hate yourself sometimes. You can only make that $ if you have the strength to work. I am getting better. I eat vegetables, fruits, and I don’t touch salt, chilli, and some seasoning. My sister calls my food “caveman food”. I can work, but not like “machine” as before. I learned the hard way. Now, let’s talk about a few things that reinforce being healthy.

**Be Creative** It is imperative that you contribute to your world. There have been studies that show that creativity has many benefits in living a healthy life. When you create value, you will appreciate every good work. Do not be a bystander in your world, live in the arena. Being creative gives you more meaning to life, and you get to live a better and important life. **Connect with people.** Humans are meant to be connected. You can’t prove you are living a healthy life alone. The good people around will make you feel more alive than living isolated. I have tried this before and it worked well for me. I was staying alone when I was sick and everyday I only have one thing to think about. “F**k me- I am sick”. Later, I decided to move to my sisters and other family place and I notice a speed improvement on my health.

**Explore** You can’t live through your life with things you know from childhood. Your curiosity for growth and to know more makes you human and expose you to new things in life. Every day brings something new to know, learn and use. It is not everything in life we have to experience, reading and watching help us explore life more. There are many things to learn from life and exploring and knowing new things makes you happy and healthy. **Take part** You are not alive until you take part in things. As I wrote, don’t live in the shadow, live in the arena. Participation makes you active and relevant in your world. > Our ancestors went through so much in a fight for us to vote. So I believe that we should engage in all civic participation. It’s healthy engagement. Susan Burton You don’t want to feel less of yourself if you want to be healthy. No matter the impediment that you may have, you are human and deserve to be happy and healthy. ___ Stay healthy! ___ _{All images from [Pixabay.com](https://pixabay.com/)}

Originally posted here: https://hive.blog/hive-190212/@tykee/while-you-focus-on-making-usd-live-healthy