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Happy New Year everyone! Or, should I say, Happy New Decade? Yessire – the Aught’s are over and we are now in to the 10s. Somehow, calling a decade by its collective name doesnt seem really interesting till you get the to 20′s, don’t you think? Well, the 2000′s sure went by fast, leaving behind quite a few global phenomenon in their wake – Y2K, the scary world of terror, the ubiquity of reality television, social networking, and the resurgence of food as entertainment.
The 2010′s promise to get a lot busier and crazier – Avatar launched a 3D madness that will soon bombard us with multi-dimensional madness; the new tablet from Apple will ensure that the interweb will not leave your side even as you simply rest on the couch – you will WANT to get the later twitter updates even if you’re just relaxing, no?; we will probably need security checks to even get on a freaking bus in the near future; and who knows what other new global phenomenon will claim to make our lives simpler by making us spend more time buying and interacting with objects, rather than taking time to ourselves or spending it with actual, live, touchable humans?
Whew – just thinking about the upcoming decade makes me tired. It might just be that I am also dreading the slow decline of my body from my roaring twenties into the dreaded 30-land. While I have a few more years to get there, being on the wrong side of 25 definitely gives you certain indication that the limitless energy you used to have as a youth was indeed with limits – there are no more three straight party days, or marathon basketball games. And I don’t just mean physically – mentally too, as we slip into the rut of careers and jobs, we tend to become zombies and walk through weeks without enojoying the little things around us. The thought of a little wee one eventually joining the wife and I only heightens my urgency to figure out a way to retain enough energy to enjoy everything life is going to throw our way in the upcoming 10 years.
Hence, my resolution for the decade is a simple one – ‘Stay energized’.
Now, the food we choose to put in our bodies has a lot to do with meeting that resolution – not just to keep us physically awake but also in how we think, act and feel (what, you never cheered yourself up with a simple bowl of icecream?). So over the next few weeks I will try to learn about how to keep myself energized in a healthy way – not just by chugging down the nasty energy drinks we are being tricked into thinking we need. (The photo above is of the free bottles I’ve collected over the past year from giveaways in Manhattan – never took a sip and decided to finally get rid of them).
Humans have kept themselves energized enough to create marvelous works of art, architecture and science for thousands of years – so I am sure that whatever magic ingredients we need to keep ourselves going exists very simply in nature – we do not need giant corporations to distill those into bright aluminum cans to sustain ourselves. Finding the right foods to sustain myself should involve nothing more than trying a wide array of fresh fruits and vegetables, along with maybe a little caffeine stimulation from teas and coffees, and seeing what fits my body the best. Whether it is having some salted nuts to beat the 3pm slump, an apple as a pre-workout snack, a fresh fruit smoothie to wake up to or a simple espresso to give me a jolt when needed - I am confident I can find some healthy ways of having enough energy to take in all that the 10′s can through at me!