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Smoking, drinking and still living long and healthy life lesson #1 – Hard physical work

Smoking, drinking and still living long and healthy life lesson #1 – Hard physical work

2012-03-28
Source: Milan Stolicny


My grandfather smoked and drunk heavily, exposed his body to the sun often, getting his skin extremely burned in the process. But  he also managed to live long and healthy life.  

No, my grandfather Julius wasn’t a bodybuilder and he wasn’t a fitness buff.

And I am sure he didn’t even care to have big muscles or athletic body.

He worked on a farm and all he cared about was to finish that digging, to finish moving those heavy rocks, to finish carrying those heavy pots, so he could run to the nearest pub and have a drink or ten.

But that heavy, hard, long  physical work kept him healthy, strong and young in spite of all that smoking and drinking, without him even realizing it.

He probably even hated his job, but there was nothing he could do about it. He had to work.

Unemployment in communism wasn’t an option. Either you were working or you were in jail.

And Julius didn’t have a car. He had to walk about 5 miles each way to get to his work.  He loved that, because there were many pubs on his way home and he could enjoy lots of cigarettes while he walked.

There is a message from my grandfathers long hard working days outside:....





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