"We are young."
That's our generation's excuse every time we decide to go YOLO. It's good to be carefree, but there is a very thin line between carefree and careless. That's what I learned two years ago when I was diagnosed with 'Type 2 diabetes'.
Growing up, I had a really high metabolism and I never had to worry about gaining weight, which meant I could eat everything, I looked younger than my age, and of course, exercise was off the list.
Our body can bear much more than we think it can, but like everyone who has been taken for granted, the body too will stop supporting us if treated disrespectfully. While my body needed to rest, my mind chose to live in denial. Finally, after years of over-stressing my body with a regular pattern of unhealthy eating habits, at the age of 26, my body stopped responding how I wanted it to.