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When we are young, few of us know everything about the ways our life styles will affect us when we are older. We hear it all the time with people talking about how they are burning the candle at both ends and most of us would probably have to admit that we ourselves have done that on occasion.

In our twenties and early thirties we almost feel like we are invincible. We are filled with energy and often find ourselves bragging to our friends or coworkers about how we can thrive off only four or five hours of sleep. The older we get however, the more we are forced to realized that we are not as invincible as we once thought we were.

We can probably all attest to the fact that at forty-five we have a lot less energy than we did at twenty-five. Suddenly we are sleeping eight or nine hours a night and still we don’t have as much energy as we used to. Those of us with children know that nothing can drain us of energy more than chasing a bunch of hyper kids around the house. Even at thirty, sometimes as parents, we feel much older than our years would suggest. Suddenly we begin to miss being twenty.

Twenty something’s generally pay no attention to the effect their choices may have on them later in life. They drink and smoke and pull all-nighters as if they will be 22 years old forever. Many have a cavalier attitude toward longevity saying they prefer to die young and healthy to old and infirm. This attitude disappears if the cavalier person lives to be fifty or so.

No matter what we may think in our youth, no one is invincible. How we care for ourselves every day has a lot to do with our quality of life no matter how long that life turns out to be. Everyone knows a smoker who put down two packs a day for 30 years and died of lung cancer at age 60 or so. Heavy drinkers if not succumbing in a car accident while driving drunk or some other accident caused by drinking die of cancer of the liver or esophagus at age 60 or younger. Every choice we make at any age has consequences.

Not good is that the bad habits we start early on in life are tough to break and we are apt to take up our bad habits before the age of reason. It’s a trite saying but true: habits are easy to make, hard to break.

Fortunately for us, our youthful bad habits can lead to cancer as we get older, but we don’t have to die. Scientists around the globe have been hard at work for years to find a cure for cancer. Cancer patients have more weapons against the disease now than ever before, giving many a youthful reveler a second chance. Certainly scientists and physicians cannot guarantee a cancer patient a cure as there are a lot of unknowns regarding the disease still, but there is a fighting chance and hope for future treatments and maybe even a cure for the dreaded disease.

Massive advancements have been made in medicine allowing many people to beat cancer. This is not a license to go on a binge or smoke that pack of Virginia Slims. Actually, as mature adults, we should consider it our responsibility to encourage the younger generation to choose wisely now because so many are clueless of the concept that there really is something beyond the now, and what they do today really does effect their tomorrow.

Talk to the young people in your life. Make the attempt to pass on your wisdom gained through experience. Maybe one out of 100 will listen.

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