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100 Not Out!

Why would you wake up tomorrow? Why should you take it a little easy?

Quotidian Tales
4 min readNov 29, 2019

Being a teenager who was fascinated by the ‘carpe diem’ concept (seizing the now), popularised by poems like Robert Browning’s ‘The Last Ride Together’ and as a woman who still binge-watches on shows like ‘Little Things’, the present and the little are all that matters and makes sense. It’s a different thing that tall talk mostly remains idealistic when it comes to implementing them for real!

Anyways, I saw a video this weekend, which once again activated my brain cells and tugged at my heartstrings. It is about people. They are frugal in number when compared to the vast population of the world. They have been leading happy and healthy lives for as long as a hundred years or even more. I was intrigued. Sounds nice but like an oxymoron, right?

As we all know, various researches are being conducted to study the conditions conducive for physical and mental health favouring life and longevity. Out of the infinite investigations, one of them, as discussed by Dan Buettner on a Ted show, yielded remarkable results.

In that show, Dan speaks of five zones that have been identified in this world where people are mostly centenarians. More importantly, they are hale and hearty and conduct themselves consciously and purposefully. A microscopic analysis of their lives and lifestyles have unfolded facts and foundations that commonly bind them and are the keys to their successful construct. Carefully hearing out…

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