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Health: Healthy by Default?
Mon, 22 Oct 2007

That phrase has popped into my mind a few times over the last couple weeks. I suppose I've been revisiting old vices to work out if I want to attempt to discard them or not, but its tough -- vices are vices because they're just so darned lovable. Consider caffeine -- I don't drink coffee (its disgusting) or tea (too lazy), but imbibe cola by the truckload. (I'm trying to work the word 'imbible' into this somehow, but its just not going to fit.) Anyway, I don't drink the cola for the caffeine -- its a nice little boost (and yes, all you coffee drinkers will note how patheticly small a boost it is while you gag on your vile bean) but I just dig the taste. Of late I'm hooked on the Dr. Pepper, much as I was as a child when they ran a contest whereby cans would have a Space Invader printed on the bottom.

Now that was something. Hell, I can blame them right -- who can refuse a delicious beverage with a giant pixelated monster on the bottom?

Still by the by, we all know cola (diet or otherwise) is really bad for us. I've given it up before a few times and endured crippling headaches for a few days to emerge the better man, only to decide wholeheartedly I'd rather be on the sauce than not.

Another vice (I prefer 'feature') is a certain piece of jewellery embedded in my person. In my tongue, you perves. Its pretty happy in there, and that location is relatively private .. so I've never been worried about the job interviews or the like. My daughter seems fascinated by it, too. But really, my teeth have been severely damaged by it over the long years I've been sporting it (probably 15 or so now!) As my brother would put it - "Its harder than you". The partial solution is to pick up plastic studs for the bar instead of the usual stainless steel ones -- plastic should wear on the goods so much more less.

But the question that has entered my mind so many times the last few weeks -- to be an example for my child, should I be healthy by default? I love my cola and my tonguering. But ditching both would improve my overall health and knocking off a few poounds due to reduced cola consumption would add some time (and isn't _any_ time worth it) to my existance on this terra firma. And cost less to boot.

But damn you Mr. Pepper, you makes a fine bevvy. So many long nights over these few decades have we danced the ends of the candle together..

Hmmmm.

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