Immobility is dangerous
Because it leads to ossification;
I cannot let you be oblivious
To what's at stake in staying at your station.
If you remain fixed in a single place
Locked into it, unmoved, unmovingly,
Then you in time will surely have to face
The terrors of grave inutility.
Your muscles will not lift your bones; your hands
Will wither and become but husks of skin;
Your limbs no longer answer your commands;
Your will and action are no longer kin.
Avert this, and be active! Go and play!
For if you don't, you risk that fate someday.
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