If you ask people whether they prefer a quality life or a long life the majority would probably say a quality life. Most people want a healthy, happy and productive life. They want to experience love, joy, happiness and success. They want the ability to see all that life has to offer and to savor those precious moments that come only once in a lifetime. The basic ideals remain fairly constant, but when you get into the details they can swing strongly in both directions.
Some people feel living as they please with no restrictions is a quality life. But the results of this kind of living can bring drastic results. Since there is no guarantee that this type of lifestyle will kill you on your time frame, your later years may not be to your liking. As an example: If you are told to give up smoking and you continue to smoke you may eventually get lung cancer to other cancers. In the meantime you are limiting your quality of life by not breathing well, not sleeping well and spending large sums of money. Since breathing and sleeping effect your daily life, where is the quality? The money could be used to allow you to enjoy other aspects of life. Another example is being a diabetic. If you continue to eat and drink as you like, you may be having a great time but you will eventually experience problems with your eyes, circulation, and other body parts. These things do not happen over night, but gradually. So, was the quality really there previously?
No one can really tell what is in store for us, but life does have a way of catching up to what we do with and to ourselves. Life gives us warning signs and if we fail to pay attention to them our later years will remind us. So, what is quality? Not taking our health for granted, not going overboard in either direction and living life passionately.
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