In today’s world, copious amounts of books and television shows depict staggering, gnawing, poor gait and bad-posture-ridden corpses. They tell the trials of those attempting to survive in the midst of the overwhelming undead around them, dodging zombie attempts to bring them into the fold at every twist and turn.
It takes work to stay alive, truly alive. It requires not collapsing under the overwhelming pressure of everything and everyone around you. It’s about finding a community of other people who desire life as well and can support you in your attempt to live your life to a ripe old age and strive for all you want to accomplish in this life.
Just for the fun of it, I explored the definitions of zombie and living. As a chiropractor, I was impressed with some of the definitions I found. One such resource gave this definition:
Zombie: a person who is or appears lifeless, apathetic, or completely unresponsive to their surroundings.
Doesn’t that sound like many people out there who are walking through a life filled to the brim with pharmaceutical intervention for everything under the sun, not knowing if what they are feeling is even feeling at all? I daresay this is also the person with bad posture, bad gait, poor nutrition, and lack of exercise and activity. Overall, they may have many bad habits that allow them to exist but not really live. It takes no work at all to be this unhealthy. In contrast, let’s now explore the definition of living:
Living: perennially flowing.
I love this concise definition. It indicates a state of constant, renewable, almost infinite motion. It indicates a life of activity, healthy motion, healthy nutrition and good posture supported with regular chiropractic and massage care. This is a disciplined life surrounded by healthy peer examples and great habits. It takes work.
Look around, then in the mirror. How is your posture? How is your nutrition? Your activity levels? Your habits? Your structural care?
Which of these definitions represents you best? It may not be too late to grab the hand that’s reaching to pull you back to the land of the living. But you have to choose to make the crucial investment in you.
The default option is to be part of the undead, walking through this world barely alive. Be intentional in your choice to do the work to be part of the living.
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