“I’d die for my kids.”
But would you…
Go to bed earlier?
Ditch the junk TV?
Heal your gut?
Move your body daily?
Unlearn toxic thinking?
Sacrificing your life is noble. But living fully—for longer—is sacred.
Get healthy for them. They need you alive, vibrant and present.
I don’t just protect them with my life…I protect them with how I live. Every damn day….
I've been telling a friend this kind of advice for probably 4 or 5 years.
He recently told me that he's been diagnosed with stage 2 lupus.
He has been drinking an energy drink basically every day that entire time.
He has been eating garbage food and hates drinking water.
And yes...he has kids...what's worse is that his own mother died when he was a kid and his life trajectory seems to be nothing better than a repeat of what his mother did to him.
They probably wouldn't die for their kids. The most common situation where this gets tested is famine, and when famine is bad enough for long enough, parents collectively decide it's OK to eat kids to keep functioning adults in the society for a chance at group survival. See the Khmer rouge famines for example.
Now I'm just guessing this part, but I feel like maybe the people who would actually die for their kids are the same people who are trying their best to eat healthy, apply critical thinking to what they watch on TV, etc.
Good stuff... 👍
