Looking back on the evolution of our species, it’s become rather clear that the longer we are here on this earth, the more messed up we are becoming.

Think of the things we do as humans and take a really good look at just how ridiculous we have become.

We will text someone who is sitting in the same room as us. We will phone someone who is in the same building. We do anything we can to take shortcuts. We go from sitting in our cars to sitting at a desk to sitting in our cars to sitting in front of the television. We thrive on laziness and inactivity. As we sit, we create ways to move less, and then we rush to the gym to so we can pay someone to make us move for an hour.

Every week, we count down until the weekend and then lose all self control for two days. We abuse our bodies and waste our days off only to suffer from Sundayitis at the thought of starting the cycle all over again on Monday. We go to jobs we hate to earn money we need to pay mortgages on houses we can’t afford that are full of things we don’t want.

We fuel our bodies with bad food. We poison ourselves knowingly. We hide away from the sun, and inactivity and stagnation have become the norm. We don’t give our bodies enough rest and we ignore its requests. When it “fails” us, we resent it, and when it’s sick we say “poor me” as if we played no role in its demise.

Movements that are unnatural have shaped our bodies in damaging ways, creating difficulty in even the most simple task. Movements that are natural feel awkward and impossible, and slowly but surely our human form is becoming less functional.

Lives are wasted in front of screens. Screens have taken our attention and put us in a trance. We sit in a spell, and we expose our children to the same blue magic. These screens change our sleep patterns and mess with our hormones. These screens isolate us and interfere with our interpersonal growth. These screens trick us into thinking we belong, to the point where we are have become addicted to them.

We have lost our way, in so many ways. We are forgetting what makes us human, what makes us special.

We are designed to move, in amazing ways. We are designed to play, to run, to climb and to stretch. Sitting was never part of the plan.

We are designed to interact. We are designed to connect and problem solve. We are designed to help each other.

We are designed to last for a long time, in much better health than what we see today. Collectively, we are a physical mess. What we are able to do is breathtaking. What we are doing is terrifying.

We are crippling ourselves through inactivity and poor choices, and we are too unhealthy and out of touch to follow the part of us that knows best – our intuition.

We need to start listening to our bodies again. We need to feel our way through the world. We need to allow ourselves the opportunity to be better than we are today and to embrace the gifts of being a human being.

As far as we know, we get one shot. You owe it to yourself to have the time of your life.