​Health is not a target we have to nail.

AUTHOR:
MAE

Lots of people nowadays have weight targets, health goals, lifestyle ambitions etc. so that they can “live better” …  ...When?  ?? I mean seriously, when?

When will you “live better”.
 
We are too obsessed, through no fault of our own, with if we have “good” health, “good” weight, “good” toned body; then and only then, we believe we can be able to “live better”, live “healthier”; and by that one mostly infers to not having any “diseases”. We believe diseases to be the culprit, diseases to be our enemy, what robs our “health”, robs our “vitality”, robs our “life”. But we could not be further from the truth!!
 
Diseases are not “foreign” or an enemy at all…
 
We live in so much fear of diseases, but in reality, it is not the disease, but the fear which is the enemy. We have it all wrong…. 
 
It's is our lack of living, not lack of “health” that robs us; it is actually us under that mask, that is robbing us, no one else. Like I said health is not a target to achieve. Actually in truth, it does not even exist in of itself… it's a mirage, an illusion, a concept that is making our life but a paradox. We are running away from the truth, chasing after an illusion and fooling only ourselves; but worse of all, losing ourselves, our life, our hopes and desires in the process of wanting to achieve a “fabled magic key” with which we wish to unlock the very thing we are losing in the process of trying to gain said fabled entity.
 
All we have to do is stop and look around us, life does not begin after any said point, life is happening right now! You are “living” it; but sadly in most cases we are not actually “living it”, rather letting it run through our hands as we run in a never ending rat race on a hamster wheel!
 
GET OFF THE WHEEL!
 
If you don’t get off now, eventually when you will “fall off” of it, you will realise that not only where you on a train to nowhere, but in anticipation of what can be, or can come from this chase, you have lost all that already is and was.
 
Don’t be another “loser” who looks back thinking what have I done, what have I lost, when did I “live” in that life that just flew by me… stop and start living today, now! Life is, only and only every can be, in the now. There is nothing either side of now. No one can reach into "time" either side of now, it does not exist. It is a promise, that isn’t promised! A faint and weak dream that cannot stretch into today. You are on a path to nowhere surrounded by void, in fact, it is not even a path at all, if you look closely you will find that you are actually standing still, it is life actually that is moving and happening around you! Yes you can reach out and touch this life as it danced around you, you can take from it what you want as it presents itself in front of you, but actually you cannot keep any of it with you! Not even your memories if it does not want you to. So don’t be under any illusions, there is no such thing as your life. There is life and there is you, you are placed inside of life for a limited time, experience it as you may, make the most of it for as long as you have the opportunity, but don’t get fooled into thinking that Life exists for you. You are but a visitor, don’t make yourself too comfort, for your ride is very soon coming to an end; no amount of health, wealth, power, or control can or will ever change when your ejector seat is going to get pulled.
 
 
So I come back to the point of when are you going to live your life, this “good healthy life” that you keep telling yourself that is going to happen??
 
I am not saying that one should not be mindful of what they are eating and doing with there life, that they should become a sloth. No, you are human being’ you are designed to live life like a human, not a sloth, or a pig, or a bee. Don’t let your life mimic any of an animal's, Allah has designed you to be human, He has destined for you to be a human so be a human; live life like a human. Human’s have been designed to have the power to "think", a trait that animal’s do not have. Animals, live, feel, react, recall even, but their “thinking” capacity is not like that of a human beings, they cannot formulate abstract thought like a human can. This is why Allah SWT calls us Ashraful Makhluqat – the noblest creation, the crown of creation.
 
We have been sent down to earth for a higher purpose than to just eat, breathe, excrete! Look beyond your body. We do not get sick because of our bodies, we get sick because we are not living properly, our soul is not living properly, our soul is not fulfilling its life journey properly. Food is a means to get energy for our body to run on, our body is the tool through which our soul is to experience its life’s journey through. We spend so much time and attention on our bodies, yet neglect to give attention to our souls. I say this again, we are not our bodies, we are a soul “trapped” inside of a physical body.
 
If we want to experience true health, if we want to “live” life in “good health”, it is not our bodies we need to focus our energy on, but our soul. Don’t spend hours in the gym, spend the hours exploring the health of your soul; don’t exhaust your mind with calories, nourish your spirituality; don’t set health/fitness goals and targets, increase your giving. Give from your heart your wealth, time, wisdom, love, care, energy and prayers.
 
Kindness and Compassion are not acts, but a state of one’s heart, a state of a healthy heart and a healthy heart reflects a healthy soul…