Forever Young....

"Let's dance in style, lets dance for a while Heaven can wait we're only watching the skies..... Let us die young or let us live forever, we don't have the power but we never say never, Sitting in a sandpit, life is a short trip.."

Life looks like a long trip along the beautiful sandy beach in the region of Okinawa. In a small village on Japan's southern island, people are living one of our dreams: Live healthy and longer. With an average life expectancy over 80 years and 86 for women, the village of Ogimi is the house for hundreds of centenarians and enjoys with the whole country, the world's longest life expectancy.

On the beach of Ogimi, you can read a sign that says: "At 80 years old, you are still a kid....." Here people live life like a video- When the sun is always out and you never get old... Forever young, I wanna be forever young- Do you really want to live forever- Forever young."


Their secret resides more than anything else in their lifestyle: their good diet, physical activities....."Hold up! Life is for living, not living uptight, so let's just stay in the moment, smoke some weed, drink some wine..."

Nooo! (alcohol and smoke are not considered a good diet...sorry!), so to this diet and sports, you add doctor check-ups, good social and family life, and as a result, in the Region of Okinawa disease is less than anywhere else in the world. These ordinary people are enjoying life and life is loving them back.
So if you love me baby this is how you let me know, don’t ever let me go, that's how you let me know, Forever young I wanna be Forever young.

A 15 hours flight from the Land of the "Rising Sun" , is Luanda! Here, it seems like heaven cannot wait and People are Hoping for the best but expecting the worst, "are you gonna drop the bomb or not"?


Yeah! Luanda is the capital of Angola (in Africa, not Texas!), where life expectancy is barely 38 years!!!, "Life is a short trip, and the music’s for the sad man." People are young but "forever" doesn't exist in their vocabulary. It seems that a 15 hrs flight from Okinawa has taken 50 years off people's lives.



In the slums of Luanda, like the majority of the country and bordering countries, if you manage to survive past 5 yrs old, chances to be young "forever" are slim. One will expect you to be gone by 38, taken away either by disease, war or poverty. In some cities, life expectancy can be in the lower thirties...

Here, no one dies from excess of calories or obesity (oh well, there is no food!), no one thinks about tomorrow, there is no sign on the beach to tell you how long you can live, no ipod to listen to Jay Z, but life goes on and you can hear from a cassette tape player, Bob Marley singing:
"life is one big road with a lot of signs so when you ridding thru the ruts, don't complicate your mind and all together now, Wake up and live now, wake up and live."!


My songs:

Forever Young : JayZ & Mr. Hudson
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1nbvplgElw

Wake up and live: Bob Marley
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nR2vsnH4Is

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