Our culture is geared to instant gratification. If everyone lived "with our future in mind" I think we would actually be happy and healthier. The first thing I can see changing would be our spending versus savings habits. I think more people would have large retirement accounts because if they were thinking about the future they would have started them when they were very young when compound interest would really make a difference.
I also think people would be healthier, because they would consider how their eating and exercise, or lack thereof, would affect their bodies today, tomorrow, next year, 20 years from now.... This would probably lower the rate of all the chronic diseases we have been studying. For example, if we all ate healthy from the time we were young and lived active lives, the obesity rate would be gone and therefore so many would not have ever developed cardiovascular disease or diabetes.
Just changing these two things, our finances and our health, how much happier we would all be. So many people today are worried about whether they have enough money to make it from pay day to pay day and are miserable because they are overweight. Think of all the time and energy we waste, that we could spend on more positive things. We all need to commit to live "with our future in mind".
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That is so true. I even think that concentrating on the finances now and not worrying about what we will do in the future can help our health by reducing health.
ReplyDeleteI agree finances and health influence our society tremendously. They would both stabilize our economy a little better. However, I do think people have different ideas on how to achieve success with the two issues and what they consider success. I have a bad habit of thinking everyone thinks the same way I do and I so many times figure that out the hard way.
ReplyDeleteGreat post!
I agree with you! i think people would live better! I know i would if i knew what was ahead of me!
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