Hooped Either Way

On Fark.com this morining I saw a link to a Reuters report titled:

Cigarettes, Coffee Tied to Lower Parkinson’s Risk

This is interesting. I quit smoking 5 years ago and gained 60 lbs so my risk of heart attack has gone up considerably. Now I’m being told I’m more at risk for Parkinsons. Argh!

All this chasing of immortality that we humans do is insane. We’re all going to croak within years of one another no matter what we do. The only way this can be different is freak disease or tragic accident. We spend all this time obsessing on preventing, or delaying by moments, the inevitable when we could be having a good time.

Like the man said, “Life is what happens to you when you’re busy making other plans.”