Day 197

I was feeling pretty good this morning and went into town for New Comic Book Day and got these past and future classics:

I also picked up some CDs, Lauryn Hill’s The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill, Red Axes’ The Beach Goths, Crown Ruler Sound, Complied by Jeremy Spellacey and Donna Summer’s Love To Love You Baby (the 17 minute version of Love To Love You Baby is a classic and everyone should have a copy):

And season 6 of Hawaii Five-O:

But towards the end of my time in town I did start to fell more and more unsettled and fainty/collapse, which persisted into the evening.

While I was travelling, I read some more of Bridget Christie’s A Book For Her and this part stuck in my mind: 

“Thirty per cent of female students aged eighteen to sixty-five would be prepared to die younger for a ‘perfect’ body; 10 per cent were willing to trade between two and five years of life.”

Which both surprised me and didn’t surprise me. I know that we should be happy as we are and that if you want a ‘perfect’ body you just need to exercise and eat healthily, which will extend your life. But, on the other hand I would happily give up the last two – five years of my life to have a ‘perfect’ body for the reminder of it! Who wants to keep the last few years of your life, when you’re too inform and too feeble to do anything?