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Wednesday, May 29, 2013

GET UNHEALTHY Blog Hop! PICK UP SOME BAD HABITS!





Thanks so much to Alex, Stephen, Dianne and Michael for hosting the blog hop! Check out the whole list of participants here!

I'm supposed to give an easy tip to help you get healthy.

 
Whoa!  Hey, Mark, what are you doing?
 
 
Ghost of Mark Twain here
to rescue your health with the plea:
 
TAKE UP SOME BAD HABITS!
 
 
I can quit any of my nineteen injurious habits at any time, and without discomfort or inconvenience.
Once I tried my scheme in a large medical way
 
I had been confined to my bed several days with lumbago.
My case refused to improve. Finally the doctor said:
"My remedies have no fair chance. Consider what they have to fight, besides the lumbago.
You smoke extravagantly, don't you?"
"Yes."
"You take coffee immoderately?"
"Yes."
"And some tea?"
"Yes."
'' You eat all kinds of things that are dissatisfied with each other's company?"
"Yes."
"You drink two hot Scotches every night?"
"Yes."
"Very well, there you see what I have to contend against.
We can't make progress the way the matter stands. You must make a reduction in these things;
you must cut down your consumption of them considerably for some days."
"I can't, doctor."
"Why can't you?"
''I lack the will-power. I can cut them off entirely, but I can't merely moderate them."
He said that that would answer, and said he would come around in twenty-four hours
and begin work again. He was taken ill himself and could not come;
I did not need him.
I cut off all those things for two days and nights;
 
in fact, I cut off all kinds of food, too, and all drinks except water,
and at the end of the forty-eight hours the lumbago was discouraged and left me.
I was a well man; so I gave thanks and took to those delicacies again.
It seemed a valuable medical course, and I once recommended it to a poor ill lady.
 She had run down and down and down,
 
and had at last reached a point where medicines no longer had any helpful effect upon her.
 
I said I knew I could put her upon her feet in a week.
It brightened her up, it filled her with hope,
and she said she would do everything I told her to do.
 
So I said she must stop swearing and drinking and smoking and eating for four days,
and then she would be all right again.
And it would have happened just so, I know it;
but she said she could not stop swearing and smoking and drinking,
because she had never done those things.
 
So there it was.
 
She had neglected her habits, and hadn't any.
Now that they would have come good, there were none in stock.
 
She had nothing to fall back on.
 
She was a sinking vessel, with no freight in her to throw overboard and lighten ship withal.
 
Why, even one or two little bad habits could have saved her, but she was just a moral pauper.
 
 When she could have acquired them she was dissuaded by her parents,
who were ignorant people though reared in the best society,
and it was too late to begin now.
 
It seemed such a pity; but there was no help for it.
 
These things ought to be attended to while a person is young;
otherwise, when age and disease come, there is nothing effectual to fight them with.
 

12 comments:

  1. If that's what it takes, I might be in trouble, as a couple of those I've never done either!

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  2. The most original post for this blog hop that I've seen today!

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  3. That is so brilliant. I'm still giggling to myself.

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  4. Reverse psychology, trust Mark (or Sam) to think of that. I may have some of those habits, but not telling which. Good to know we don't have to be perfect (in every way).

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  5. Love this post Roland, its original and refreshingly different.

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  6. Great post, very different and entertaining yet enlightening :D

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  7. Four days...four full, 24 hour days...

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  8. Alex:
    The ghost of Mark Twain says you're young yet (compared to him!) so you have a chance yet! :-)

    Thank you, Michael!
    The ghost of Mark Twain gleefully takes full credit. :-) Thanks for the compliment.

    Sally:
    You made Samuel Clemens' ghostly day!

    D.G.:
    Perfection is boredom according to good old Mark! :-)

    Rachna:
    You made my weary evening so much better!

    S.K.:
    Samuel Clemens says it is all his doing! :-)

    M.J.:
    Ouch! I hear you. But if you are ill enough, I guess you can sleep through some of those hours!! LOL.

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  9. Hi Roland .. certainly a fun post packed full of ideas and thoughtful interludes .. I loved the video too ..

    Delightful 'unhealthy' bloghop post .. and fun too .. cheers Hilary

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  10. First of all, I CRACKED up with the title...

    Your cleverness never ceases to amaze me Roland.

    I REALLY enjoyed your post. It took me three days to get to it ... I take my hosting duties very seriously and am visiting EVERYONE on the list.

    I SERIOUSLY DON'T KNOW HOW ALEX does it!

    But then again, I leave much lengthier comments than he does. LOL.

    Some very "interesting" tips in here. LOL.

    Thanks for joining the BLOG HOP, Roland. This is one of my favorites.

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  11. Hilary:
    I think the ghost of Mark Twain was trying to tell us that laughter is one of the best good health aids around! :-) He's glad you liked his post.

    Michael:
    EVERYONE ON THE LIST?

    You amaze me, Michael! I'm glad you enjoyed Mark's tongue in cheek post. I do not know how Alex does it either!

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  12. Ah! I thought I commented here! This was funny :) And the twisted logic still has me grinning. Great post for the hop!

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