New Year Resolutions
Been the most difficult Christmas of all of my days after a very close friend of mine (since 1990) was found at the side of a quiet road just before the festive period, with a serious head injury, which lead to his death within a few minutes. This event was so sudden I had texted him twice that day, once in the morning and again around 4.30pm (which was never read), as the time of death was given as 4.20pm, before 4.20pm there was nothing unusual about this day, just the normal routine.
After the autopsy, it turned out the reason he fell was a heart attack, a reasonably athletic guy around the age of 50, who had often joined me attending football matches, camping expeditions, and even climbing mountains or taking on long distance trails, all without incident. A guy who had a reasonably healthy diet (in fact one similar to my own) but one thing he did do was smother his food in salt, which maybe didn't help and his 'addiction' to salt was so severe that if he went to a takeaway he would demand the salt shaker to apply his own salt.
The whole situation obviously got me thinking about my own existence, and what we all put into our bodies, sometimes without thinking, and how we can maybe all change for the better, if we need to, before its too late.