Longevity

How do you live longer? That's a question many people have asked since thousands of years ago. In my paper today, I read an article about being nice to stray animals. It ended off with saying people who treat animals well are general happier and tend to live longer.. Is there any truth in this? Probably, since animals are much simpler than when dealing with people around us. If you are nice to them, they will reciprocate.

It's also said that people with religion live longer. Studies show that people who attend religious meeting every week lives as much as six years more. What I think is that these people are happier with their lives as they meet up with friends to socialize. Apart from that, religions encourages healthy lifestyles, which certainly play a part in longevity.

References:
Religious People Live Longer Than Nonbelievers
Be kind to animals - especially strays (my paper 04/04/2008)

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I'm not trying to tell you to take up some religions. In fact, I'm a non-believer, but there's always things that we should learn from religions. For example, learn to socialize. Encourage and support your friends and they will do the same for you. Eat healthy, you don't need to be in a religion to be able to do that, do you?

However, the longevity discussed above are just physically being able to live longer. What would you want to do in those extra time that you have? Enjoying life would be good, but when you passed on, no one will remember you after a few generations. If you really want to attain true longevity, you should strive to make something of yours live on even after you die.

This something could come in many forms. When you on the lights, you think of Thomas Edison (maybe not quite since it's almost taken for granted nowadays). When you open your secondary school physics textbook, you see the three Newton's law of motion, then you will think of Isaac Newton (though you might get cursed occasionally). When you watch Romeo and Juliet, you remember William Shakespeare. This list can go on and on, but you should get my point by now. Instead of blindly finding ways to stay alive longer, get alive and make yourself count.