S1W1: Wellness

Week One and I am fired up about wellness!

Wellness could be considered a pillar of creation, and rightly so. Throughout time and space, land and seas, roads and squares, homes and institutions… wellness has evolved and revolved, as it should. For greater wellness today, and from here on out, there is a potential need for the good of civil life to stop the expansion of creativity in certain markets and accept that which is now established as having achieved a pinnacle of usefulness, and therefore such a product needs to find its way into the possession of all citizens regardless of status, examples being homeless, in a care facility of whatever nature, or incarcerated. A bit dreamy, I’m afraid, as arguments for civilization’s security and domestic tranquility’s assurance could be made to bar certain citizens of a technological wonder. And that’s okay, as such arguments could surely appeal to a democratically decided rule of some sort, and that’s pretty much why democracy was invented, to showcase human reasoning between two opposing ideas of necessity concerning domestic tranquility’s assurance with rules for all to live by as the biproduct.

Now, I kind of slid right into that idea that certain products should make into the possession of all citizens as those products, I dare say, are at its pinnacle and further engineering is futile; however, needs for fine tuning in a desire to perfect the pinnacle should be their ends, and for all time use. It seems to me in my interactions with other citizens is that materialistic needs surely create happiness, and happiness influences that citizens wellness. This truth cannot be discarded. Materialistic phenomena surely influence wellness, whether a lack thereof, or albeit in possession. What bothers me is that the most beautiful of idea in civilization – The Common Era – is being reduced to whispers. Citizens are being more and more quirky, pursuing their own delights, their own pleasures, their own ideas of necessity for their current circumstances and disregarding the greater good. Some things in life simply change the mindset of citizens to self-serving ideologies given power, whether consumer power or social influence in today’s America.

In the year 2021, my mind was opened to two new ideas on what should constitute wellness in all-encompassing ways. Before this, my ideas were infantile, stuck on material things which created happiness, and happiness was wellness. Happiness as wellness through material things was not everything, as I did everything I could to create a social life. So, my overall wellbeing was constituted by social statuses and material procurements. But, in the year 2021, I was opened to a couple new perspectives on what should constitute citizenship wellness.

These new perspectives were reasonable, to say the least. One broke down wellness into 9 “dimensions”, or life-blocks. The other had 4 categories of wellness, or 4 life-blocks. Very similar ideologically. Each gave wonderful insights into wellness beyond social status and material wealth. I do, however, have reservations as to new perspectives regarding a more complete idea of wellness fitting in with the now whispers of a Common Era’s return, and what it might take to achieve such in America.

Right now, I am wondering if others felt the same way regarding the two-factor wellness influencers: social status and materialism sufficing for happiness. I was just a boy in a village with a population of around 5 thousand going through the K-12 system in the 1990s and first half of the first decade of the 2000s, so give me some slack. Like, when I was going through Junior-High and High School, the world-wide web launched, mobile phones with text-massages were launched, and we were all addicted to AOL’s Instant Messenger (or either MSN’s Messenger or Yahoo Messenger for some interactive fun).

Okay, enough of the trip down memory lane. The two life-changing perspectives for me regarding a more complete wellbeing will be referred to as —

Idea (A): The 9 Dimensions of Wellness (Falcone, 2017).

Idea (B): The Nested Spheres of Poverty (Cahyat et al., 2007).

In my upcoming posts in Season 1: Week 1: Wellness Week, I will be making posts dedicated to Idea (A) and Idea (B) – The 9 Dimensions of Wellness, and The Nested Spheres of Poverty. More in-depth with my own reactions to them each regarding plausibility in not only my own life, but to a Common Era.

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Afterword

I am not attempting an academic essay or professional writing of any kind. This is a blog. A public blog accessible on the world-wide web. I do have instruction on academic writing concerning references. I may or may not follow those instructions. However, I will to the best of my ability, given light that this is the 21st Century and civilization now has an electronic means and otherwise to communicate world-wide, and I, an American afforded free speech to citizens of the Unites States, will do my best to provide my source material when also available by the means and mediums in common as to how I communicate this blog on the world-wide web so that readers of this blog may peruse content by which I derive certain content and material herein. Simply put, cut me some slack, Jack! Like, I’ll provide references as best as I can! I am not trying to create a wikipedia, man! I am trying to free my mind here. This is therapeutic to me. I am simply creating content. If you don’t like my content, create your own website and have a go at this. There is plenty of web space for all of us still alive and for many generations to come. If anything comes from this, employ some common sense! And that common sense better reflect the times we all live in.

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