The One Thing That Determines How Much You Enjoy Life
JUST LIFE!
If your body is broken, no part of life feels whole.
No amount of success, wealth, or passion matters if your body can’t carry you through it.
You enjoy life through your body. Not around it. Not despite it.
Through it.
Think about it. Every pleasure—eating a good meal, walking with someone you love, laughing out loud, dancing, swimming, sleeping in, hugging your kids, even enjoying silence—requires your body to be well enough to receive and respond.
When you’re in pain, when you’re sick, when you’re physically drained—those things don’t feel the same. In fact, sometimes they don’t feel like anything at all.
That’s not negativity. That’s just truth!
Your body is your access point to everything—your relationships, your work, your passion, your purpose. When your body is drained, every part of life is filtered through fatigue. When it hurts, your world shrinks. You stop being present. You lose patience. You stop feeling joy in the moment.
A tired body makes a tired mind. A tired mind makes a small life.
Even knowing this, I still struggle to stay consistent with my health.
I’m not here to preach. I don’t wake up at 5 AM and run marathons. I’m just aware—and I try. And I want to remind anyone reading this to try too. Because if you lose your body, you lose your ability to experience life fully.
I didn’t realize this through philosophy. I learned it through frustration.
From childhood, I dealt with a health condition that limited my movement. I couldn’t run like other kids. I missed out on games. Made fewer friends. Felt left out. At times, I felt angry at my own body.
Later in life, I had to walk away from career opportunities—not because I wasn’t smart enough or capable enough, but because my body couldn’t keep up.
There were chances I couldn’t pursue, and moments I missed simply because I didn’t feel up to it physically.
That’s when this truth hit me:
If you want to enjoy life—you have to be able to show up for it.
And for that, your body has to show up first.
Your energy, your confidence, your ability to act on all the great things you think about—they all depend on how you feel in your skin.
So no, this isn’t a fitness pitch.
It’s just a quiet wake-up call.
Take care of the only thing you’ll carry from the beginning to the end of your story.
Don’t do it because you’re scared.
Do it because joy requires it. Peace requires it. Success requires it.
You don’t need to be obsessed—just be aware. Be intentional.
Your mind might be brilliant. Your heart might be kind. But if your body can’t carry them, they don’t go far.
Look Ahead!
Start small. Stretch. Walk. Breathe.
Do something today that future-you will look back on and say,
“That’s when I started showing up for myself.”