In a recent article on Discover Magazine Blogs, the author made this astounding statement:
“A lifespan is a billion heartbeats. Complex organisms die. Sad though it is in individual cases, it’s a necessary part of the bigger picture; life pushes out the old to make way for the new. Remarkably, there exist simple scaling laws relating animal metabolism to body mass. Larger animals live longer; but they also metabolize slower, as manifested in slower heart rates…”
I don’t know if this statement can be taken at face value, but…
A billion heartbeats?
What if you really had a billion heartbeats that measured your life?
What would you do with them?
What would you change about your day? Week? Priorities?
I would not do any cardio!
That made me laugh out loud!
I am so glad you asked me that Scott; I would not change a thing, my life has made me who I am today…that does not mean that I have always thought this way, but so glad I think that way right now…
Live life to the fullest…. use every one of those billion heartbeats…. then ask for more