HEALTH is of PARAMOUNT IMPORTANCE
The past month or so, I have been doing pretty much the same thing, doing my NS n going home, going to catch a movie every now n then with my friends. Though this sounds really nothing much and seems like a routine for many of us in Singapore, now, ask yourself, will I have been able to do this if my health is in a poor condition? The ans, though obvious, is lost on many of us.
This has brought me to the point that, being responsible for my own health is very important, more important than anything I will deem important around my life. Should there come a day I am stricken with an illness, having to go for treatment and stuff to get my health back on the healthy side, I will miss my soccer matches with my soccer buddies, the movies I so dearly want to catch, seeing my family depressed because of my condition and, not being able to play with my pet dogs.
Having attended 3 funerals in the past 3-5 years, I have realised that to live life daily with no objective it like being a walking dead in this world. Of out the 3 funerals that I have attended, 2 of them really stuck me close to my heart. It is cause both of the funerals are my friends' mums funerals and they are all related to health.
The first one was due to stomach cancer. The other was due to stroke. The last one, which is actually the 2nd funeral that I attended, was my grandaunt and she had the same health problem as the first person who was my poly's friend's mum.
The reason why I said that the 2 funerals which I attended of my friends' mums struck close to my heart is because, recently, around 3 weeks back, my own mother was diagnosed with cancer. It took a day or two for the news to sink in. It totally took the blow out of me man! I just could not believe what the nurse and what my father told me. It was like, yesterday, my mother was fine and today, she is unwell.
The feelings, the problems that we are currently facing and going to face till my mom recovers can never be fully put into words. Who am I to complain? What about my mother who is suffering now, always feeling pain in the area where the cancerous cells are located. The feelings she is feeling is really indescribable. From a person who does not look too much on the negative side, she has more swung to being more on the side of the negative.
Being a carefree type of person who does not really have to do much when he is at home, I now have more responsibilities both not only at home but in the base. Hopefully, I will be able to last the mile till my mother fully recovers which will be sometime next March.
This brings to the point why health is so important. Never delay treatment as the problem can get worse and the treatment will be longer than is necessary. This happened to my mother and I wish that none of it will befall those who I care for and love again.
This has brought me to the point that, being responsible for my own health is very important, more important than anything I will deem important around my life. Should there come a day I am stricken with an illness, having to go for treatment and stuff to get my health back on the healthy side, I will miss my soccer matches with my soccer buddies, the movies I so dearly want to catch, seeing my family depressed because of my condition and, not being able to play with my pet dogs.
Having attended 3 funerals in the past 3-5 years, I have realised that to live life daily with no objective it like being a walking dead in this world. Of out the 3 funerals that I have attended, 2 of them really stuck me close to my heart. It is cause both of the funerals are my friends' mums funerals and they are all related to health.
The first one was due to stomach cancer. The other was due to stroke. The last one, which is actually the 2nd funeral that I attended, was my grandaunt and she had the same health problem as the first person who was my poly's friend's mum.
The reason why I said that the 2 funerals which I attended of my friends' mums struck close to my heart is because, recently, around 3 weeks back, my own mother was diagnosed with cancer. It took a day or two for the news to sink in. It totally took the blow out of me man! I just could not believe what the nurse and what my father told me. It was like, yesterday, my mother was fine and today, she is unwell.
The feelings, the problems that we are currently facing and going to face till my mom recovers can never be fully put into words. Who am I to complain? What about my mother who is suffering now, always feeling pain in the area where the cancerous cells are located. The feelings she is feeling is really indescribable. From a person who does not look too much on the negative side, she has more swung to being more on the side of the negative.
Being a carefree type of person who does not really have to do much when he is at home, I now have more responsibilities both not only at home but in the base. Hopefully, I will be able to last the mile till my mother fully recovers which will be sometime next March.
This brings to the point why health is so important. Never delay treatment as the problem can get worse and the treatment will be longer than is necessary. This happened to my mother and I wish that none of it will befall those who I care for and love again.
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