Today is a good reminder that all bodies eventually fall apart. No amount of healthy lifestyle choices (not smoking, not drinking, not eating trash, plenty of aerobic exercise) will make you an eternal ephebe. We all face decay, and eventual death. Perhaps this very quality of decay makes youth so much more precious. Perhaps life needs death to define itself. Perhaps reflections on death are, on balance, the key to live a fulfilling life.
For now, I just need some rest.