Last week after hogging endlessly at my in-laws place, on my way back, I decided that I have to become healthy…

Its not that I am overly obese or have gross vital stats but somehow I am not feeling good inside with the extra kilos I have put on and want to do away with it. Hence the new resolution even before the new year kicked in. I just couldn’t  wait! (and I have already started with the daily regimen I set out).

And yet, I got drawn to something of an irony when I looked around me. Being  healthy is the most often heard wish or resolution people make for themselves and wish for others. Yet, when we look at the general trends and figure it out, health parameters across the board are falling. So what’s going wrong?

My guess is, people are just subscribing to being healthy as a fad, seeing others around them. It’s an endless chain hence, which does rope in a lot of people but doesn’t benefit many. Why? Simply because I will work towards my health only when I really feel about it. Otherwise, you be damned – I won’t heed your advice, or anything else which pushes me involuntarily towards it. 

Come to think of it, most things we do in our life are because we want to do them. Not because someone somewhere told us to. And definitely not until we are pushed from within to go ahead and do it.

External push rarely works!!! Unless accompanied by the internal clamouring… And my guess is for all things!