Fix It Before It Gets Broke

I find it interesting that people always act when it is too late.  We would rather try and fix our problems when it becomes a problem. Take for example our health. We spend thousands of whatever currencies we operate in to fix our heart problems, our obesity, or knee problems, our vitamin deficiencies and all the other ailments which we have developed over the years or as a result of bad and unhealthy habits and lifestyles. How on earth in today’s day and age can people not know that eating healthy and exercising equals a longer life? We have ALL the information in the world at our disposal, yet we don’t use it. We would rather wait until we are already fat or our hearts are beginning to give in or until a specific ailment strikes before we start doing something about it. I would wonder why, is it an evolutionary trait or maybe just plain laziness and ignorance?

 The same goes for our environment, we are polluting the earth, dumping rubbish everywhere, destroying nature for buildings, polluting our air etc. The thing is not many people cares about it yet, for the simple reason that it isn’t a huge problem yet, it is still in progress and could have certain consequence, but we as human beings won’t really care until it becomes a problem. It seems that almost everyone including myself leave things to the last moment, until it is almost or entirely unfix-able before we make an attempt to correct it.

Maybe it is part of what makes us human?