Aging is not a Medical Condition
Enilda Wason
August 07, 2007
Scientists and studies stated that aging is a medical condition, arguing that an aged body does not function properly and therefore, it has a disease. A disease is a medical condition that has to be treated, but I believe that aging more than a medical condition, it is an opportunity of life.
Everybody knows that aging is part of the life cycle, it is a normal process; we born, grow, reproduce and die. Aging and death are natural, inevitable and irreversible.
Once we accept this incontrovertible reality, we have to learn how to age gracefully and how to arrive at old age as young and healthy as possible.
The trick is to learn to delay or avoid the main causes of death (i.e. heart disease, including high blood pressure or hypertension, diabetes, strokes, cancer and chronic lung disease).
The common factor in all these conditions is that they are often preventable and avoidable. They can be timely detected, found so early that they can be easily cured. And as a matter of fact, many of them have common causes and if we learn to handle those common causes, we will be controlling more than one disease.
On the other hand, aging is also that part of our lives in which we have to be able to turn back and say, I did this and that for me, for my sons, my people, my country, my world. We have to create consciousness and improve social values; we have to stop violence and drugs, we have to care about each others. The inexorable passage of time of what we do today is what creates our tomorrow. Pray, love, believe, be healthy, study, work, smile, help, dance, care, recycle, relax, enjoy… enjoy life… enjoy aging.
Life, like a good story, is not valued for its length but for its contents. We do not receive a short life, but rather we shorten it. We are not stingy but liberal with it.”
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 B.C.—65 A.D.)
Everybody knows that aging is part of the life cycle, it is a normal process; we born, grow, reproduce and die. Aging and death are natural, inevitable and irreversible.
Once we accept this incontrovertible reality, we have to learn how to age gracefully and how to arrive at old age as young and healthy as possible.
The trick is to learn to delay or avoid the main causes of death (i.e. heart disease, including high blood pressure or hypertension, diabetes, strokes, cancer and chronic lung disease).
The common factor in all these conditions is that they are often preventable and avoidable. They can be timely detected, found so early that they can be easily cured. And as a matter of fact, many of them have common causes and if we learn to handle those common causes, we will be controlling more than one disease.
On the other hand, aging is also that part of our lives in which we have to be able to turn back and say, I did this and that for me, for my sons, my people, my country, my world. We have to create consciousness and improve social values; we have to stop violence and drugs, we have to care about each others. The inexorable passage of time of what we do today is what creates our tomorrow. Pray, love, believe, be healthy, study, work, smile, help, dance, care, recycle, relax, enjoy… enjoy life… enjoy aging.
Life, like a good story, is not valued for its length but for its contents. We do not receive a short life, but rather we shorten it. We are not stingy but liberal with it.”
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 B.C.—65 A.D.)
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