Let’s flash forward into a future place called Regret. You’re sitting there with a full time nurse to feed you and you can’t remember your adult children’s names let alone their faces. The reason? Alzheimer’s. Now, enter into the scene, Mr. In Retrospect. He’s the annoying reporter coming to interview you about past life choices. He sticks the microphone in your face and asks you one question, “Mrs. Alzheimer’s Sufferer, if you had it to do over again, would giving up sodas and candy THEN have been a small sacrifice in exchange for having a functioning brain NOW?”
Your answer? Well, actually, you’ll look at him with a confused look and say “Who the hell are you and what are you talking about?”, because your brain doesn’t have the capacity to remember back to the place you used to dwell called Opportunity. But if you could answer him with your present brain, you would of course, say, “YES, Mr. In Retrospect, losing soda and candy would have been a small sacrifice in exchange for a healthy brain. Sugary foods in exchange for not remembering my own name was not worth it!”
