Randolph:
From my perspective, you’re not avoiding the unpleasant stuff - you’re just pushing it down the road where it lies waiting. The ailments of old age are often the price you pay for not taking care of yourself in middle age, and though you can get away with an unhealthy lifestyle today, and probably tomorrow, it’s really hard to see the totality of what is taken from you one step at a time.
Meh.
Randolph:
I think it’s great that you’re improving your diet, but to completely dismiss exercise to the point of whatever point you’re of seems very shortsighted to me. Your body is a complex, efficient machine - it reconfigures itself to do what you ask of it. But if you never ask it to do much - well, it can be really efficient at that too. And if you ask it to do more than it’s used to, then yes, it will take you out of your comfort zone. But it also changes what your comfort zone is - and with life remaining the same difficulty, well, it seems to take the edge off the whole thing, and that’s just lovely.
I don’t see what’s lovely about manfacturing an edge to life just to try and get yourself accostomed to it. Sounds to me that even if you were entirely successful at getting that edge off, you’d just be back where you started.