Here’s a word on diversity. The more different your diet is, your workout is, your day is, your clothes are, your shoes are, may I add your friends are, the better off you are. This is fact not fiction. For the last couple of years I have been reading books on health, following influencers of health and seen first hand how health is really wealth, ask me for I have for years aided tons of money on medicines for acne, hair conditioners of every type and even astrological consults to help assuage my mental health! But what I have gathered from all the tomes of reading, is that health not wealth requires a lot of movement, a lot of diversity. Stillness may be beneficial but even that needs to be complemented by movement, the balance always tips on the diversity aspect.
Eat the colours of the rainbow is old, eat 30 different vegetables and fruits is the new alarm, and doing so will cause no reason for alarm. There is truth to the fact that simply walking for years will hurt the joints, if it isn’t supported by strength building exercises. Also true is that there is going to be pain, in your joints or in your muscles the choice remains, workout and the muscles hurt, do not them maybe the joints will. I don’t personally think exercise is crucial, but it does offer several boons that even the lazy bones in me cannot argue with. But then the beauty of it is when a lot of different types of exercises are done, mix it up as they say. The same with reading, I have one last book that hinges on wellness for now, more lined towards the art of cooking, but after that it is time to pepper my reading list with different genres, it keeps the mind fresh. Then there is the fact that novelty keeps the mind young, alert and active, while routines are good for some new things are something else. That explains the love for travelling and the art of walking about in new cities.
With walking is the question of shoes, and no matter how comfortable the shoe, wearing it every single day without a change could be disastrous for your foot. The human body thrives on change. So wider the shoe and the variety the better off one maybe! Even with music or podcasts, it’s a pity that AI reads your mind and serves up the exact same type of content, or even the social media gives you more of what you like, where is the mind expanding then. Then also is the company one keeps, when you are the sum of the five people you meet then you’d better watch out for who you meet! I have found that when I meet different people over different times the conversations are plentiful and refreshing. I have a friend who meets me and others once in six-months, for what is there to talk more often she says, that way one can cut off heedless gossip and malignant complaints from one’s life too. But either way there are those who you need to see everyday and those who you can see once in a while but then it’s the diversity that makes one’s life fun. Now while I go on and do something different today, it all does contribute to one final agenda in the day and that is to enrich my life and of all the others!
P.s while this may not work in every situation or every order, it works in some! Do exercise it in caution!
Vedasri Siddamsetty 