Alexis Fernandez-Preiksa

Like when you look at a mother who's had kids who has like sound mental health and they're like, well, you're privileged.

Is it a privilege for a mother to have sound mental health or should that be the fucking norm and should society step up?

That's what I'm talking about, okay?

Anyway, this is a rant about the word privilege.

So I don't think ageing is technically a privilege because we all should be granted that.

We all should be able to age.

But it's a beautiful thing to be able to live a long life is what I'm trying to say.

So we need to celebrate that.

We need to look at the fact that other people don't get that opportunity.

And so when you have it and when you're able to do it to really make the most of it and not be thinking, oh, but I've got this wrinkle here, I've got more lines in my face, when there's so much more you can be doing with your time, so much like fun shit where you could be out there actually earning more of an education or more great relationships or, you know, learning to fucking swim that one kilometre or the half marathon.

This is why I always, always encourage people to,

to do something physical because when you train the body, it becomes easier to train the mind.

Okay.

So another thing I wanted to talk about, about body energy and health brain exercises, start yesterday.

Always do things for your brain.

And when I talk about exercises, I'm not just talking about these brain training apps while they're fine.

They're not really what I'm referring to.

The best kind of brain training is things like when you're really putting yourself under like in a challenging situation and you've got a problem, solve your way out of it.

A great one is language acquisition.

Learn a new language.