I am healthy thus I am lonely.

Every night while i am reading a book, I wonder what my friends are upto.Are they getting drunk somewhere? Is dinner still pizzas and biryani? Are the omelettes at the stations still as greasy?

This statement depicts what my life is like since I decided to become healthy. My friends are still around but choose not to call.I have chosen the kind of healthy food choices i want to make. This automatically leads to my explusion from "club cool".

This is the bane of modern life .Once a man starts walking down the road of wellness and good health he slowly starts becoming a social outcast. But why should that be? Isn’t health important? Aren’t we today facing an epidemic in terms of lifestyle diseases? Well it’s true but.... Modern life with all its pressures and stress needs an outlet. This outlet is provided in the form of dining out, drinking, staying out late.

Indulging is all these is not done for the love of it, more as a social statement which soon becomes a lifestyle vice. People dine out so often nowadays, cooking at home is considered stupidity.This particular way of life has picked up steam in the last 30 odd years. This indulgent life was always around but the popularity and frequency of the same was restricted to people from certain professions. The lifestyle and economic changes, technological advances, social norms changing.

This led to this hedonistic way of life gaining popularity.Smoking,drinking,eating late are the new benchmarks of cool. I too have indulged in the same, but today I don’t. I still drink occasionally, don’t smoke anymore and surely don’t like eating out anymore.

One likes waking up early, doing yoga, eating healthy and sleeping early. I don’t want diabetes, cholesterol, asthma, acidity to ever be a part of my entourage. I want to dance, surf, climb, ride, travel and do all the things that modern city life has deprived me from.

For all the above I need a very fit and healthy mind and body .I cannot let obesity ever come close to me Food is meant to nourish , not weaken me. My skin and joints are meant to be supple and nimble, not brittle and weak.If indulging in unhealthy ways of living is a social necessity, I rather am a rebel who lives on healthy terms.

I am healthy thus I am Lonely.