40s, Health, Lifestyle Diseases, Uncertainty at 60

In 40s and 50s the concentration shifts towards health looking at the report card, yup the blood test report card. The good ones are below the boundary line and bad ones are above the boundary line. Does these number pop-up suddenly ? No ways, they have been building all throughout our life. I never looked the parameters when crossed 35. That would have raised alarms.

When the numbers cross the boundary line, it's so much pressure to bring them back to normal and talk to anybody on earth, its painstakingly longer than expected. 

So here are the pointers from an experienced person

• Workout, Exercise regularly right from the beginning as early as 20s.
• Inculcate habits that push you to be physically active.
• Enjoy food. Every one enjoy the junk, but my point is enjoy the healthy ones as well.
• Start monitoring your blood parameters and signs by your body.
• Alcohol / Cigarette consumption worsens the conditions 

Diabetes will cause a big. That's the start of all the problems. When body doesn't produce enough insulin, sugar starts getting into blood and its circulates throughout the body and heart. Now the veins, in which blood flows, start accumulating the stains of this sugar on the walls and impacts the blood flow slowly, year after year. 

The deep fried food, alcohol damages the liver. 

When this accumulation itself takes years, the cure will also be as long. Then starts increase in blood pressure, fatigue and other diseases. Then the pressure to maintain diet, exercise builds rapidly. 

Its like Bangalore city, every where traffic. 

All of a sudden one starts thinking why is it happening to me? The answer is - because you ignored taking care of body right from the beginning.

When a parent teaches to study regularly for the year end exam, why doesn't the same parent implies the same to his/her health? Well, teach the kid also about health, not only prepare for exam but also take care of health.

The long term impact ? One starts taking diabetes medicine at 45, bp medicine will be introduced in my prescription by 48-50, then cholesterol control tablets by 52, heart surgery by 55 and bedridden by 60. So by 60, one will be consuming 8 to 10 tablets daily instead of food. 

All the best !

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AI - What lies in the future?

Came across this article today - https://www.moneycontrol.com/science/watch-china-s-humanoid-robots-practice-kung-fu-with-shaolin-monks-in-viral-temple-video-article-13820936.html

Excerpts from the article - Chinese robotics firm Agibot released a new video on February 7 featuring humanoid robots practicing kung fu at China’s historic Shaolin Temple, sparking widespread discussion online and raising questions about the growing presence of artificial intelligence in traditional human spaces.

Probably everyone has watched videos of robots in airports, have a cleaning robo at home, computers aiding engineers to write programs, helping doctors in diagnosis of diseases faster etc etc. That's 2026.

What lies in the future?

• People will buy a robot and send it to work. More the money, smarter the robo and higher the earnings
• Wars will be fought by robos
• Police being replaced 
• Robos will be sent to space
• A robo teacher is school and colleges
• Robos farming
• Elderly care by robos
• Robos in action during fire fight
• Boat seizure, robos sent
• Robos exploring unexlpored deep ocean
• Send them to Antartica or Artic zones

Smart AI, Dumb Human.

Old Age Home

The previous generations had 2 or 3 children, the one before that had 6 to 7 children, no guess on how many did the one before had. 

Cities developed, infrastructure grew, industries increased in numbers and resultant was people started moving to cities for jobs. The joint families with 6-7 siblings split up. The ones who moved to cities started having lesser kids for various reasons. Kids started looking for opportunities overseas and who were left behind? The parents, the elders and that gave a space for old age homes.

I have seen parents living with kids, kids living in different cities and elders without family. So what's the point?

There is definitely need of Old Age Homes. 

I, myself, thinking of constructing one. God know if I can afford taking shelter in an old age home, so why not have one of my own? 

The Wait Kills

In 21st Century, the Wait is simply exhausting or to put it in different perspective we don't have patience. Let me explain what I mean.

Recollect the last time you ordered food on a Sunday morning and the delivery guy on the app shows he hasn't picked up the food yet. The "wait" begins. No matter how hard you try, the situation isn't going to improve as it's out of your control. One keeps checking if the food got picked. Wait isn't over yet, one keeps a track of the delivery guy all through the traffic till he reaches doorstep.

You have attended an interview for a job. After every round the "wait" for the schedule for next round seems endless. And after the last round the "wait" for the offer letter is eternity.

Just the "wait" for salary after 10th of every month is painful.

The "wait" for a stock price to go up, exam results, blood reports, getting cured after falling ill 🤒, festivals especially Deepawali and Ganesh Chaturthi, the "wait" for vacations and the list goes on.

My point is the duration for which we wait isn't that long as it actually is. There is one particular wait that I want to emphasize. 

Elders, especially the one who live in old age home, the bed ridden ones, the ones who have chronic diseases the wait is unbearable. The real pain lies there. It's impossible to feel that pain of waiting for the "death". Although nobody expresses it but definitely thinks about it for the wait to get over. 

This particular "wait" kills.

Is it all about Life or Death?

Look around, everybody is living for the sake of death and not for a living purpose. When did this definition change? Life is a blessing or rather its a blessing in disguise. The way we are living is preparing for death, there are more than enough reasons to find just at your eye sight distance, but definitely not all of them. The common man category probably makes the most of this category or could be everybody. The only category who don't live preparing for the death are the selfless ones. That would be my definition. 

Let's look at few examples from each category.

Poor: I am not getting into the definition of poor. What's objective of this category? A few of them to list - earn for their livelihood and to give a good future for their children. At the first place, why do they make kids when they themselves are living in jeopardy? No, I am not criticizing their marriage and having kids but look at the prospects. When I am done with my life, why should my child or children suffer is the question that the poor is addressing. So the prep is for his own death. He/She is willingly ready to sacrifice his life for the prospects of his children. All the paths of his thoughts lead to death and nothing more. Someone, or infact many, can ask how would you "live" if I were to be poor? My answer wouldn't be different.

Middle class: This category has the leverage of having some cash in bank account and have different thoughts. What's the objective of this category? Earn, Buy Property, Travel, Party, Send kids to good school. Consider each of them and they are interlinked. Earn because to buy property, buy property so that their children are secured when he/she dies. Travel, why? To see the world because he doesn't know when he is going to die. Party, now you would have guessed the reason. Send children to good school, so that they can take care of themselves after him. Every single reason leads to preparation of death. 

Rich: Now this category not only has the leverage of money but also power. Money becomes second priority when it is in abundant. The nature of human being is to ignore or neglect what he has and to perceive what he doen't have. Getting into power and having a command over a few aspects of society to get the name and fame so that their name is imprinted in the history after he / she dies. The abundant money, properties, cash, ornaments etc ...all that is used to get into the power and a back plan if he gets into a mess (I can only guess). 

Scientists: There are a few categories who indulge themselves in search of "something". I definitely don't want to say they do their job for the preparation of death. The passion towards "something" doesn't lets them think of death and keep their exploration active. There are few more categories like this. 

And as I said not all of human beings are living for death but definitely a very major chunk of it. 

And do I have answer on how to live and not prepare for death? NO.