You say it well and pretty much I'm the same, healthy and fit, eat well, stay off alcohol a lot, no smoking, loads of sleep...active mind, active body, and so on. So yeah, I'm with you there. I liked what you said about our generation as well.
I think we were more inclined to think forward and into older age where these days it's about instant gratification..we were that was as well, but we balanced it.
You know, here people are drawing on their superannuation (government permit it) well ahead of time for such dumb things...shows a lack of foresight. I thinknits the same with their health, they just don't look down the road and think, maybe what I do now will massively affect what I can do later.
Life is a lottery indeed, well said, but I see little point in adding to that with dumb and unproductive decisions and actions. I attack life man, I'm good at it, because I know I'll die at some stage...I've taken risks for sure, but they were calculated. I got lucky alit I guess too. I think there's a lot to be said for seeing and acknowledging our issues as we can confront them...work on them...and I think men should be better at talking about them.
The young people? Well, they may have to learn the hard way.