Losing The Invincibility Of Our Twenties

Time was when we were younger we paid no attention to the fact that what we were doing every day would have serious consequences later

. We burned the midnight oil partying, studying, going to class and going to work with nary a thought of tomorrow.

We folks in our twenties and thirties are immortal. We are loaded with energy and can easily get by on four or five hours of sleep a night and be raring to go all day long the next day, day after day. And then we get a little older and our immortality slips a lot.

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.

A lot of people in their twenties, though, do not have a clue as to what effect the choices they make now will bring on later in life. They drink and smoke as if tomorrow will never come. Many are of the mind that they really don't care too much about living if they can't do so on their own terms. Talk to these folks again when they are fifty and feeling the effects of their bad habits. They may tell you tales of remorse. They have lost their cavalier attitude.

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.

Unfortunately, the bad habits we start early on in our life, before we have really had a chance to gain any wisdom, often carry on through the majority of our lives. We've heard it said before that habits are easy to make, but 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.

Even though huge advancements have been made in medicine, and many people have been able to beat cancer, that certainly does not mean we should smoke and drink to our hearts content. In fact, as adults it is probably our job to encourage the younger generation to make wise choices since many are unable to see the long term effects of their decisions.

So next time you are speaking with a group of teenagers in your life, make an attempt to pass on your wisdom gained from experience. I predict that at least one out of a hundred will listen to you and that one will forget what you said immediately. But speak up anyway, what the heck.

by: Sy Schlager

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