A lot of times people forget that times stop immediately they fall sick. No business, no competition, no ability to work, to zeal to do anything anymore.
Everything you do is channeled at getting better or recovering. Your life flashes before you, you spent time not caring about business, work, how you look or any other thing, and this just shows you how life feels precious the moment yours feels like it's slipping away.
I've been here several times.
In most situations I lose so much weight that people begin to talk and murmur, but this is probably because life is so insensitive that the world is full of people who do not understand that health can decline for anyone, and some people will be unlucky to die in the process.
I've been to different hospitals in my lifetime, probably more than a huge percentage of the people around me, and it didn't just make me appreciate little things, it makes me conscious and aware of life's uncertainty, and how it's important to prepare for the other side.
A lot of people are nonchalant about health awareness, until it happens and then it's too late for them. Some people are healthy today, and some gets into an accident they don't survive, and some others gets diagnosed with stage 4 cancer that's metasized, and for some it's kidneys and others it's an autoimmune condition that eats them up and it's the end.
The other day I was reading the news of a tiktoker who battled cancer for years and died about a week ago. People kept adding collages of images of when he was healthy and when he was aggressively losing weight and it wasn't just insensitive to me, it shows that we live in a world where people don't truly understand the trauma of health struggles except those that are affected.
It's also very saddening to see those struggles, but that's the reality I'm talking about. When people get sick, everything about them changes to fit into their health challenges. Their diet, things they wear, their career, lifestyle choices, and this is for people that aren't strapped to a hospital bed for months.
For those ones, life become completely different, they would give anything to see the sun, walk on their own or even live again, this is how crazy life is, health is so fragile, so much that the essence of your very existence completely changes to mirror the reality of that health condition, and that's how sad it is.
I've gotten a lot of health scare, I've seen grown men shed tears, sometimes it's not just the discomfort or pain of being in that situation, sometimes it's the fact that adjusting to the reality that this is the new "them" or that they may be gone soon, and they're not even prepared for what's on the other side.
You can still get sick no matter what.
Also, you can do everything right and still fall sick, there's always this "why me" that comes with being unhealthy. It feels unfair that it had to be you, but there are over six billion people in the world who are perfectly healthy, and life just had to hit you, why not just pick any one of these people instead of you.
Yeah, this is the state of the mind, the mind is the originator of all that pain, and this is where it all starts to eat you away. In reality, I think people should be very conscious of their health, and if they're fighting health conditions that's not their fault, then no need spending time in pity and stress.
You have one life to live, and the thoughts of spending it in pain and all that can be very stressful, but this is how horrible reality can be, and sometimes we can't just do anything to actually change it.
Health is everything, don't let anyone tell you it's money, love or anything like that, the basis of everything in life functions when you can live without pain, discomfort and trauma of watching your body fail you.
