My mind never stopped walking. This can be awkward. When a lot of time is spent struggling with the pain, and struggling with these kinds of thoughts, very little else gets done, time is wasted. There is a lot to do during this lifetime, and wasting time is wasting life. Life is suffering and a struggle too.
Life is so much and too much at the same time.
I have been a vegetarian for some twenty eight years. I am not a fanatic about it though. I do just about anything occasionally and have a relationship with this body that wants the feeling of a clean engine, in tune, running smoothly. The four years before the accident that left my body paralyzed, I did yoga on a daily basis. Good physical fitness and good eating habits, it is these two aspects that I attribute to how well my body got through two major operations, six and twelve hours long.