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In a Season of Darkness, Grow Towards the Light
"Pain is unavoidable. Suffering is optional." As a healthy man soon to turn eighty, I was struck four months ago by multiple myeloma. Myeloma is a blood cancer, an intensely painful condition in the bone marrow that over time can weaken and hollow out one's spine and other bones. It can feel like a leaden anchor relentlessly pulling you underwater. Conventional pain medicines have done little to alleviate this pain. I am largely confined to a recliner by day and a bed by night. While experiencing a harrowing, inescapable level of physical anguish, I've developed a new relationship with pain that has revealed a way of being I hadn't imagined possible prior to the onset of this cancer. I've described these discoveries to my medical team and they've urged me to share them with those enduring intense physical pain. I describe them not as a prescription for others but simply as one individual's journey of discovery, an evolving personal response to a common, inescapable challenge.
By Shayan Ali6 months ago in Longevity
"Forget Your Age — This 10-Second Balance Test Reveals How Old Your Body Really Is"
So I was lying in bed the other night, trying to read my phone, and started complaining to my wife about how my vision keeps getting worse, and then how stiff I feel when I wake up in the morning, and how a recent injury is taking too long to heal and she said — "well, yeah, you're 44. That's when things start to head downhill."
By Shayan Ali6 months ago in Longevity
"7 Medical Mysteries That Could Save Your Life in Today’s Healthcare Maze"
On a blistering Sunday morning following an 8-mile training run, I was sweaty, winding down, and heading for home when a car slowly came up on my left side. The car stopped and an elderly woman whom I did not know had a look of desperation as she shared the following medical horror story with me through her open car window.
By Shayan Ali6 months ago in Longevity
You Can’t Grow Without Getting Uncomfortable. AI-Generated.
Growth is rarely a smooth journey. It demands stepping outside familiar territories and facing challenges that make us uneasy. Whether it’s learning a new skill, changing a mindset, or pursuing a bigger dream, discomfort is a natural byproduct. This discomfort signals that you are pushing your boundaries, expanding your capabilities, and evolving as a person. Without experiencing this tension, growth stagnates, and comfort zones become prisons. Embracing discomfort as a necessary step helps shift your perspective—from fearing it to valuing it as a sign of progress.
By Stella Johnson Love6 months ago in Longevity
Top 10 Fitness Dating Sites and Apps to Meet Fitness Singles in 2025
Imagine lacing up for a sunrise run, your partner matching your stride, or spotting each other at the gym, sharing a passion for health that fuels both your bodies and your bond. In 2025, fitness singles are no longer settling for partners who don’t understand their dedication to an active lifestyle. With 65% of online daters prioritizing regular exercise in a partner, per a 2025 DatingNews survey, niche platforms like FitnessDating.site are transforming how health-conscious singles connect. This premier fitness dating site, with its verified profiles and advanced compatibility matching, leads the charge in uniting runners, yogis, and weightlifters for meaningful relationships. As niche dating surges—Statista reports a 20% rise in specialized platforms since 2020—this 5,000-word guide explores the top 10 fitness dating sites and apps, offering insights, tips, and inspiration to find a partner who shares your heart and your hustle.
By Stella Johnson Love6 months ago in Longevity
How to Pick the Best Spas in Avondale for Your Skin Type and Needs
Looking for a relaxing facial or a therapeutic massage in Avondale? Whether your skin is oily, dry, sensitive, or somewhere in between, finding the right spa can make all the difference in your self-care routine.
By Ashima SEO6 months ago in Longevity
Excuses Change Nothing Action Changes Everything
Defensive rationalizations become a habitual safeguard we brandish whenever the prospect of growth threatens to unsettle us. Confronted by a daunting task, the psyche assembles an inventory of convenient explanations: “My schedule lacks the bandwidth,” “I require yet more preparation,” “The timing still feels misaligned.” While the initial delivery of these statements is cloaked in plausibility, over time their accumulation erects a subtle yet imprisoning stillness. The central failing of such defenses is their utter impotence in altering external conditions; they merely lengthen the interval during which aspiration recedes ever further.
By Kellee Bernier6 months ago in Longevity
Trust the Work Even When Results Are Silent
Amid a cultural bias toward instant results, commitment to the long arc of development can come to feel, if we let it, like a litmus test of resolve. We learn to prize immediacy, so the absence of visible change can seduce us into doubt. Yet, the most significant growth routinely occurs out of immediate view, underground, forming a root system that eventually sustains a visible bloom. Patience, properly understood, is a dynamic expression of confidence, not a stagnant wait. By insisting on discipline even when the signs of improvement remain hidden, we are excavating a bedrock whose contours we will one day see, though we cannot yet conceive them.
By Kellee Bernier6 months ago in Longevity
The Hardest Battles Create the Strongest Warriors
Discomfort, whether physical or emotional, holds within it a quiet curriculum designed to advance your growth. Through pain, you encounter unembellished realities about your nature and your latent capacities. While security cradles you, it seldom commands your evolution; difficulty forces re-examination, re-formation and, ultimately, regeneration. Each knock forces your senses awake, summons courage you did not know you harbored and installs a new layer of durability. When the contest magnifies, the metamorphosis accelerates. Eventually, the hurt you once recoiled from becomes the scaffolding of your vitality, equipping you for chances that, in keener moments, had the outline of impossibility.
By Kellee Bernier6 months ago in Longevity
Momentum Builds When You Stop Quitting
Success seldom arrives through dramatic, life-altering acts; instead, it is forged through persistent, unremarkable choices repeated over time. When you pledge yourself to a purpose and refrain from retreating at the first sign of difficulty, the accumulation of modest measures eventually becomes remarkable achievement. Consistency fosters a quiet assurance in your own judgement and cultivates the discipline to endure moments of discomfort. Each time you opt for perseverance rather than capitulation, you reinforce your capacity to remain engaged. Given sufficient time, this relentless commitment transforms your thinking, your routines, and, in the end, the very course of your life.
By Kellee Bernier6 months ago in Longevity
