Day 67 -- The needs of the many...

I'm feeling much better tonight, both emotionally and physically.  I started taking Airborne again this morning, but it's the dissoluble tablet instead of the chewable.  I think the tablets are much faster-working.  After just three tablets along w/ Tylenol each time, I'm feeling 100% better.  The connection b/w good health and mental well being is astounding.  When I taught high school, I did an exercise w/ my students where I gave them a list of values such as health, money, family, etc. and asked them to pick their top three.  For these teenagers, health rarely made the cut.  I have to admit that 15 years ago when I taught these high schooler's, I didn't place that much value on it either.  Now I realize that health actually has to be the number one value otherwise none of the other values are possible.  Without mental and physical health we don't feel like spending time w/ family or spending money or improving our intellect or worshiping a higher power.  Nietzsche wrote his most famous works during a 10-year-period during which he quit his job, suffered poor health, and had little contact w/other humans.  Then after a mental collapse, he spent the next 11 years in a semiconscious state before he died.  He gave us some of the most astounding existentialist philosophies but at what cost.  Spock may have been right when he said, "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few," but I have two daughters who need me in a very healthy and conscious state.  So my number one value is health.  All other values will fall into place after that.