What were you doing 25 years ago?
I’m aware some of you won’t have been born, of course.
For those that were, it was Millennium Eve.
Right now (11am) on December 31st 1999, I was in my student house in Nottingham.
Getting ready to party like it’s 19 …… hold up it is!
I remember having the TV on in the background, watching various countries head into the next Millennium.
The Republic of Kiribati was one of the first Google informs me.
Who remembers the Millennium Bug?
Or the Y2K problem as it was also known?
The concern that old computers, which had a two digit year display, would think it was 1900……..
And “planes would fall out of the sky”.
And cash machines might start spewing out money.
Nowt happened of course.
Well relatively little.
Google has also informed me that “A nuclear energy facility in Ishikawa, Japan, had some of its radiation equipment fail, but backup facilities ensured there was no threat to the public.”
Some then put it down to being a hoax.
It was my understanding (and I was doing a degree in Engineering, which included computer science, at the time) that there was no problem not because there was never going to be a problem……..
But because it had been dealt with.
People were aware of potential issues and old computer clocks had been updated.
A lack of problems was because the preventive work had been done……..
Not an indicator that the preventive work wasn’t needed.
Much like with our bodies.
It’s easy to get discouraged with our progress when exercising and / or changing our food.
Forgetting what would have happened if we hadn’t been doing that.
Going from gaining weight and reducing energy and mood……..
To maintaining them……..
Has massive value.
Damage limitation can be great.
Only gaining a pound or two when it might have been 7 or 14 in the past.
We can’t stop our bodies aging and developing problems here and there……..
But we can massively slow it with our choices.
Much like planes not falling out of the sky, it’s hard to see the benefits sometimes.
But they are there.
And that ‘preventative work’ is always worth doing!
Much love,
Jon ‘Charennium Willennium’ Hall
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