The bucket list

I would like to link a film review to my Ajurveda and healthy life topic. I could offer several other films and books ( Jane Godall books and Super size me just to recite some examples) on this subject but I chose this film because I saw it just a few days ago. It doesn’t have many things to do with eating habits, but it speaks about life in a marvellous way. It’s an american movie which stars as big names as Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman.
Well, to be onest, I went to see this film beacuse I couldn’t stand staying in a 60 square meters flat in a nice Friday evening. But my boyfriend and also I was so tired, that we didn’t have the energy to go to an art cinema. To sum it up I didn’t expect too much, I just said ok for the first american film. Well, it was a huge surprise! I was so moved emotionally that I began to cry..
The story is about two men who get into hospital because of having a serious brain cancer. They share room and become very soon friends although one of them is a white doctor and the other is a black car mechanic. After they are told slipping the painter in a few month’s time they decided to travel around the world and do things that they never done before because they were scared to death. Well, now they really have nothing to loose..May be the black man. He has a family and he has to choose : stays with his relatives and try an other usless therapy or live his last days with a stranger. It’s a bit kliscé story but it's full filled with emotions, and has a lot to transmit.
Sometimes we scare too much of life itself. But I believe, that we have to find what we really like to do, also as a profession, even then it’s hard and full of difficult decisions sometimes…

The Ajurveda

What is Ajurveda? In the opinion of the indian people it is the so called science of the life. It was developed thousands of years ago and until nowadays it is the base of the indian medical healthcare. But this discipline is not only used in hospitals to cure sick patients but it’s a fundamental of the outlook of life in this eastern culture. So we can say that it’s an entire system, that gives a daily routine, speaks about alimentation and the importance of being in contact with the nature and last but not at least also deals with astrology.
Ajurveda devides people’s body type in three classes and there are three other body types that lies on the mixture of the first mentioned three types. Each type has a different life style and alimentetion proposal but all of them underline that the human body is the part of the nature. That’s why we shouldn’t eat artifical foods, and we have to take the season and the local food in consideration when we do our everyday shopping. Also harmful for our body, if we for example don’t get up until midday. Indians say that we have to get up with the sun to be capable to follow our body’s natural functions. It’s true, and I’m a proof for this statement. Everyday I can get up between 6 and 7 o’clock without problem. For a while I also changed my eating habits and if I have the chance I also avoid eating meet. For a long time ago I didn’t take any medcine exept my vitamins, and until that time I didn’t have any serious disase or illness. So may be the indians know something…and may be it’s worth to spend some time thinking about what foods do we consume and what we should…