Magnum opus

Leonardo Da vinci

A story

A very engaging story Leonardo I heard from my art teacher (Experiences make a man- Prateyush das): Leonardo Da Vinci would visit an old age home very frequently. The reason: he saw a particular old man who looked never never tensed or did not have any reason to be sad or to worry about. He was always calm, smiling and happy. This struck Leonardo and his curiosity impelled him to continuously visit the old age home to observe this particular man. 

Leonardo wondered, how can such a man, who does not have anything to worry about, who hardly gets anxious, tensed or angry and stays calm, possibly die?

So, he visited him and quietly observed him. This went on for a long time until alas, the man died. Leonardo was very happy, for now he could dissect his body and find  out what went wrong, what did he die of. After a long tedious process of dissection of several of his body parts, he found out the reason. 
The man died because his arteries ad veins had become weak. They had become brittle, and could not take pressure. As the heart had become used to not taking higher pressure of blood, it succumbed and gave up when recieved a slightly higher pressure. 

So what I gather from this is that everything, including stress helps us in staying fit. But again, everything in moderation.

One would fall short of appreciation for Da vinci. An artist will be sized down to a dwarf in front of Leonardo's art. in  These are some of his diagrams that he sketched after every dissection that he did.
He combined his skill with science, which is extraordinary. People also say he was way ahead of his time in every possible branch of science, maybe 100 years ahead.