Health’s horizon

When you make healthy decisions you move toward health.

After making what some think is “enough” healthy decisions, or moving far “enough” toward health, you may think you have established a healthy lifestyle.

If you forget that health is a process and not a destination, you may also start to think that you are healthy and this thought is dangerous. When you think that you are healthy, it is easy to stop doing the things that brought you toward that state and begin doing things that move you away from it.

Health is not something you can be.

It is something you must do.

Rather than thinking of health as a destination you hope to visit and perhaps live in someday, imagine health as a direction on a compass.

You move toward health like you travel toward North. There is no city limit or boundary. There is only a horizon that extends before you.

With every step you take, your view of its landscape extends. The further you travel, the more that is revealed to you.

And the moment you moved North, the place where you had previously stood became South. What you used to think was healthy can become an unacceptable standard after experiencing what it’s like to move toward health.

Hold judgement though. Northerners and Southerners, healthy people and unhealthy people, only exist in comparison to one another.

We are not healthy or unhealthy.

We experience health when we look and move toward it. We hide it from our view and perception when we look and move away from it.

Which direction are you headed?