1. TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF
1-1 Get care when you are ill. When they are ill, even with communicable diseases, people often do not isolate themselves or seek proper treatment. This, as you can easily see, tends to put you at risk. Insist when someone is ill that he or she takes the proper precautions and gets proper care. 1-2 Keep your body clean. People who do not bathe or wash their hands regularly, can carry germs. They put you at risk. You are well within your rights to insist that people bathe regularly and wash their hands. It is inevitable that one gets dirty working or exercising. Get them to clean up afterwards. 1-3 Preserve your teeth. If one brushed one's teeth after every meal, it has been said that one would not suffer tooth decay. This, or chewing gum after each meal, goes far toward defending others from oral diseases and bad breath. Suggest to others that they preserve their teeth. 1-4 Eat properly. People who do not eat properly are not of much help to you or themselves. They tend to have a low energy level. They are sometimes ill-tempered. They become ill more easily. It doesn't require strange diets to eat properly, but it does require that one eats nourishing food regularly. 1-5 Get rest. Although many times in life one has to work beyond normal sleep periods, a person's general failure to get proper rest can make him or her, a burden to others. Tired people are not alert. They can make mistakes. They have accidents. Just when you need them, they can dump the whole workload on one. They put others at risk. Insist that people who do not get proper rest, do so.
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2. BE TEMPERATE
2-1 Do not take harmful drugs. People who take drugs do not always see the real world in front of them. They are not really there. On a highway, in casual contact, in a home, they can be very dangerous to you. People mistakenly believe that they "feel better" or "act better" or are "only happy" when on drugs. This is just another delusion. Sooner or later, the drugs will destroy them physically. Discourage people from taking drugs. When they are doing so, encourage them to seek help in getting off of them. 2-2 Do not take alcohol in excess. People who take alcohol are not alert. It impairs their ability to react, even when it seems to them that they are more alert because of it. Alcohol has some medicinal value. It can be grossly overestimated. Don't let anyone who has been drinking, drive you in a car or fly you in a plane. Drinking can take lives in more ways than one. A little liquor goes a long way; don't let too much of it wind up in unhappiness or death. Deter people from excessive drinking. ~~~ Observing the points above, one becomes more physically able to enjoy life. ~~~ -temperate: not going to extremes; not overdoing things; controlling one's cravings. -deter: to prevent or discourage.
3. DON'T BE PROMISCUOUS
Sex is the means by which the race projects itself into the future through children and the family. A lot of pleasure and happiness can come from sex: nature intended it that way, so the race would go on. But, misused or abused, it carries with it, heavy penalties and punishments: nature seems to have intended it that way also. 3-1 Be faithful to your sexual partner. Unfaithfulness on the part of a sexual partner can heavily reduce one's survival. History and the newspapers carry floods of instances of the violence of human passions aroused by unfaithfulness. "Guilt" is the milder evil. Jealousy and vengeance are the greater monsters: one never knows when they will cease to sleep. It is all very well to speak of "being civilized" and "uninhibited" and "understanding"; no talk will mend ruined lives. A "feeling of guilt" is nowhere near as sharp as a knife in the back or ground glass in the soup. Additionally, there is the question of health. If you do not insist upon faithfulness from a sexual partner, you lay yourself open to disease. For a very brief period, it was said that sexual diseases were all under control. This is not now the case, if it ever was. Incurable strains of such diseases now exist. The problems of sexual misbehavior are not new. The powerful religion of Buddhism in India, vanished from there in the seventh century. According to its own historians, the cause was sexual promiscuity in its monasteries. More modernly, when sexual promiscuity becomes prevalent in an organization, commercial or otherwise, the organization can been seen to fail. No matter how civilized their discussions about it, families shatter in the face of unfaithfulness. The urge of the moment can become the sorrow of a lifetime. Impress those around you with that and safeguard your own health and pleasure. ~~~ Sex is a big step on the way to happiness and joy. There is nothing wrong with it, if it is followed with faithfulness and decency. ~~~ -promiscuous: not restricted to one sexual partner.
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