Social and productive activities provide equivalent advantages to staying alive as do physical fitness activities.   Harvard Medical School researchers found that people with a chronic medical condition that makes physical exertion difficult may greatly benefit from participating in social activities. Spend an afternoon tea with your friends, play bridge on Friday night, or have an impromptu get-together with neighbors.  When you spend quality time with those who share your interests, you establish the basis for a social network that helps you to maintain a positive outlook on life.

"Let your life lightly dance on the edges of time like dew on the tip of a leaf." ~ Rabindranath Tagore