While I can choose…the health we gain or the health we lose. Having carefully chosen our food for about five years my wife and I enjoy good health, the ability to do pretty much what we want to do being 65 years and older. Do we have freedom in the foods we eat? I would have to say no, because sometimes we want to eat food that we shouldn’t eat, and we choose not to. That’s not an easy choice but it’s freedom. One can also choose to eat certain foods that are knowingly damaging to health to some degree. Is that freedom? Yes, it is. We have that choice. But there are consequences that we do not choose, such as visiting the doctor because of a health event, getting tired of the pain, or the abnormal lethargy, and asking for a remedy. Then the doctor orders one test, another appointment to explain the results, then another test. And another appointment and prescribed medication’s. And so we come under the power of another. Is that freedom? I don’t think so, though one could argue we’re free to just not go to the doctor. But then you are not managing your risks very well. You don’t know what the risk is of doing nothing, which is probably a compelling reason to get on the medical path and stay there awhile. Sure, staying free is not always the easy path, but I think it’s better to be faced with a hard choice and have the freedom to make it , than to have no choice at all.

Posted by jamesbecker226 at 2025-08-29 00:58:13 UTC