Life is too chaotic to survive mostly without believing in God or Buddha or something. When I look back at my own life I couldn't have survived it without believing in God or Buddha or something all that way because of the ignorance just regarding medical things in the 1950s. The world in general and my parents too didn't know a lot about what we know today regarding medical advances. I watched people in my church for example, die one by one because they wouldn't go to a doctor to get some help and so many beautiful people just died one by one who were very sincere but who were afraid of medical intervention as being somehow evil then in it's effect upon their lives and so they died one by one often at young ages of 20 or more, or as children whose parents wouldn't let them get medical help.
It's not that medical help is perfect now either. But, for example, with just a smart phone and data and going on the Internet you can almost diagnose most ailments (or at least get some idea of what's happening to you in many cases even without seeing a doctor).
There have been some exceptions to this in my life even in the 1980s and 1990 up to 2015 however. I wasn't sure I had had a burst appendix in 2015 and no one told me the dangers of coughing causing a hernia just after a burst appendix operation. So, one of the advances since then is they have decided not to operate on burst appendixes and instead just give people strong anti-biotics just since 2015 now and they don't generally operate on burst appendixes anymore so people don't have to live with a hernia the rest of their lives too. One of the problems for me is that most countries don't do remedial work on hernias if their patients are over 65 like me for a variety of reasons which is one reason why I haven't done this either. I was told that I would need 12 stainless steel staples to hold in place the Kevlar screening which would be about 1 foot square and this might give me a 20% chance of debilitating pain the rest of my life. And if you gained any weight after having this operation that you could die. This operation didn't seem like a good idea after learning all that anyway. So, learning to live with some of your intestines out past your stomach muscles isn't fun and is sometimes very scary.
I have had to change my diet and if I want to lift anything over 30 or 40 pounds I have to put on a weight lifters belt so I wear a weight lifters belt a lot of the time and all the time when I'm skiing now. I have even worn a weight lifters belt in physical therapy when I'm running underwater on a treadmill through water. Likely the next time I snorkel in Hawaii I will also wear a weight lifters nylon belt with velcro fastener.
But, I can still lift weights of over 60 pounds over my head at 71 as long as I'm wearing a weight lifters belt to pull it all together. So, I'm still very strong but I do have to be careful.
And being careful likely will also increase my lifespan because I cannot take the same kinds of risks that I used to. For example, you aren't going to hear about me climbing Mt. Everest and dying for example anymore which is probably a good thing. So, in this sense I can see God working in my life to keep me out of trouble and to once again lengthen my life.
By God's Grace
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