I exercise because I want to stay healthy.

He told me that I should stop going to parties and avoid loud music, which is also believed to weaken the body s energy level and therefore affect my health.

He told me that I should only see positive friends and cut out all the negative people from my life in order to avoid any negative frequencies or vibes which could affect my health.

Now, Mr. Alligator never did come, but the idea of Mr. Alligator coming actually saved my sanity and made it OK for me to keep going because I believed, in the distance, there would be someone coming to rescue me.

We need to elongate the time frame upon which we judge the balance in our life, but we need to elongate it without falling into the trap of the I'll have a life when I retire, when my kids have left home, when my wife has divorced me, my health is failing, I've got no mates or interests left.