been down with Gastroenteritis aka stomach flu recently and the frequent trips to the loo just left one weak and floppy. it is similar to having gastric, just that it is a very bad case of gastric, which gives you vomitting and diarrhoea and practically zero energy and appetite. ironic that gastric=not enough food/regular meals. now how are you going to heal if you have no appetite to eat?
illness is scary. it leaves you weak and detached from the world. detached as in disinterested in everything and everyone around you. no energy to care about your surroundings. all you feel like is wanting to expire. i have an irate fear of being sick, because i’ve seen my closed ones fall really sick and succumb to the illness itself. it is really scary. hard to imagine, but tough to witness. especially things like cancer. that thing is evil. it eats you up alive and leaves behind a foul presence of depression and helplessness. death lingers around impatiently, waiting to lay its stake on you. (thats why i think euthanasia is a good thing)
i think, being healthy and STAYING healthy is one of the best gifts that you could give yourself. most people i know fear growing old. we all fear the illnesses and weaknesses that comes with age, the inability to do things as easily as we can now. even simple things like walking could be a chore when we are old. even breathing might be hard for some. the things that plague us when we get old, could it be the things we chose to do when we were young, or could it be just plain bad luck? it could be both, but i think our lifestyles when we were young do play a huge part in determining how you are going to live your later part in life. as they always say, no pain, no gain. pain before sweetness or sweetness before pain. you can never have the best of both worlds.
have fun now, and suffer the consequences later. or work hard at giving your body and mind a sound health, and reap the benefits later. it’s always give and take. we might take our health for granted when we are young now because we can’t understand or feel the impact of what poor health do to us yet. but having seen what it can do to others, in a way, it is good because it gives me an awakening call of alarm, that if i don’t work hard towards a healthy lifestyle, the only person to suffer in the end, is myself. sure, there’s always medicine, therapies, medical solutions, and then again, there’s always money to consider about. even if you have all the money in the world, the agony of being sick will still precede over everything else.
hence to all my friends and family, i sincerely encourage you to take a step backwards from whatever “unhealthy” vices you are indulging in (at the moment, it’s indulgence), think about your health and future, and plan your very own health trip to a better lifestyle.
Cheers to great health,
fifi
