I love my car. Even though it’s close to being 10 years old, not very sexy, and even a little bit beat up, I still love it.
I love my car so much that I take good care of it. I make sure to change the tires, clean it, take it to the shop when it needs fixing, and put into it only the best gas to make sure it runs right.
Then one day it dawned on me that I take better care of my car than I do of my body. I never put anything that’s bad into my car yet I do put bad things into my body.
For instance, I do eat sweets even though they’re full of sugar and empty calories but I would never, ever, no matter what, put anything that’s not the best into my car. No way in Hell!
[ I just love this picture, even though my car is slightly bigger (: ]
I think that I’m not the only one who behaves this way. I’m not the only one who treats his car better than he treats his own body.
How is it with you? Which is more important: your car or your body?
Naturally, I think my body’s more important and I bet you do to, but when I thought about this it got me thinking about all the things we possess and take very good care of:
- We take the time to fold and iron our clothes
- We make sure not to download unknown stuff to our computer
- We keep our house clean at all time
- We take great care not to scratch the Teflon on our pan.
- Need I say more…?
A lot of us take better care of our stuff than of ourselves. We take our body for granted, eat crappy stuff, don’t work out, don’t learn how to treat our body right.
To go back to the car example: most of us would go to the shop the moment our car started making funny noises, but a lot of us won’t go to the doctor for every small ache or start a diet when we’ve gained 5 pounds (we’ll wait until we’ve gained 25).
Why does it have to be this way? I’m not suggesting going to the doctor every time you scratch yourself or never eat chocolate cake again.
All I’m saying is that we need to start thinking of our body as the finest, most expensive, and rarest item we will ever own. Once we do, we’ll do a much better job at taking care of it.
