Well I'm not sure where I stand on this topic. I will say that for the most part people as a whole are living longer and seem to be healthier than they did even 50 or 100 years ago. Is this due to modern medicine progressively getting better? I'd say its certainly part of it. Also probably has to do with us working smarter rather than harder. By that I mean the inventions of better tools and machinery for example so the worker bees aren't literally killing themselves to let's say build a house or farm. I'd say people now a days are living much easier and with that healthier lives. Now some are gonna say bullshit that just means we are getting fatter and less healthy due to not working as hard. Personally I don't buy that. I think as we evolve as a species we get smarter and that leads to cleaner healthier longer lives.
Now for what seems to be the recent spike in deaths in athletes. Who knows. Are we just paying more attention these days? Probably. But let's face it with every pill, medicine, gear, we put in our bodies to enhance performance we are essentially poisoning ourselves each time. However humans ended up here we came with a pretty fucking impressive blueprints for our bodies and minds. And in my humble opinion each time we stick something in our bodies that wasn't originally meant to be there its probably fucking something up. Now are we gonna stop? I'm not. With all that being said earlier I'm with whoever mentioned i that they would rather live 65 happy years than 85 shitty ones.
Recently my grandmother passed at the age of 97. Some would say wow that's great. Me I say fuck that. I'd say since she hit around 70 she had probably ten strokes, stayed in constant pain and the last five or so years was basically just a fucking vegetable that had to lay around in piss and shit till somebody noticed and would clean her up and roll her to prevent bed sores. Sorry for me, and its just my opinion, fuck that. If I'm lucky enough to see that kinda life coming for me I'll load up whatever drug I can find and I'm gone. Trust me. And I hope that when its my time I can look back and say hey at least I lived life to this point to the fullist. Don't get me wrong I'm not gonna intentionally drink a fifth of whisky a day and shoot. dope all day cause I think life isnt important. Not at all. However I do think that if it makes us as athletes happy to do a cycle 4 times a year and an occasional Oxy to relieve the pain then fuck everybody and fuck the Grim Reeper. I'm gonna do it and smile all the way. Gotta live life to the fullist. Just be smart about it. Far as I know we only get one shot at it. Long as your not hurting anyone else in the process I say fuck it. Can't live life scared that everything might shorten it by a year. Again this rambling post was just my outlook on living and dying. Probably not worth a shit. I just know I like a lot of you guys have lost a lot of friends due to all kinds of reasons and that just makes me want to go even harder so I don't have any regrets about what I could of done or been. Sorry I probably rambled on way to long....AR....
