Sickness

For most of last week, I was struck down by sickness and not wanting to infect anybody else at work, I chose to stay away from everyone. Looking at all the symtons, I self-diagnosted myself to have the stomach flu and at its height, I was seating in the washroom all morning and was suffering from dehydration. I didn't see the doctor because my doctor is of a peculiar sort where he believes that letting the body heal itself with no help from outside medicine is the best solution. For a simple stomach flu, he would have just told me to get the medicine which I have taken and that would be it. He would then say if anything worst happens, come back and see me. So I didn't see any point in dragging my weak legs out of my house and driving all the way to see him.

After recovering and reflecting back on my sickness, I was once again reminded at how fragile our body is. Perhaps it is not that our body is weaker, maybe it is due to the virus and bacteria being stronger. Or perhaps it is the way we exploit our mother nature, destroying the very place we live in that makes our body more susceptiable to sickness. I do not know the true cause of this. However, what I do know is my friend from Shanghai has be sick for 3 months and he tells me that even his whole family is sick for almost as long.

So to everyone out there, please take care of yourself. Health is the greatest wealth that we can ever have.