PERSONAL HEALTH UPDATE: I HAD a follow up check up with my doctor last Friday and he was pleased that the wound (more of a crater, really) left by the ugly carbuncle that afflicted me last week is now healing. He did not give me anymore oral medications but instructed me to just maintain topical treatment with an ointment he prescribed. He advised however that the healing might take some time because the wound is quite big, measuring a good 1″x1″.
Patience, patience. Ah, I had to fortify this virtue in me again and again in battling the painful infected growth on my stomach.
Healing, either on the physical, emotional, psychological or spiritual aspect, takes time Healing cannot, and should not be forced. It will just come naturally in the course of time. Physical healing, though with medical intervention, cannot be coerced either because there is also a time element involved. It cannot be rushed.
And so – patience, patience I should have, and hopefully by Christmas, I will be back on my feet and be my old self once again.
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I received this forwarded e-mail from a friend. Let me share it here. (Copy-pasted, to save me the effort of typing. Hope you forgive my laziness. :D)
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS FOR THOSE OVER FORTY YEARS OLD
1. Focus on enjoying people, not on indulging in or accumulating material things.
2. Plan to spend whatever you have saved. You deserve to enjoy it and the few healthy years you have left. Travel if you can afford it. Don’t leave anything for your children or loved ones to quarrel about. By leaving anything, you may even cause more trouble when you are gone.
3. Live in the here and now, not in the yesterdays and tomorrows. It is only today that you can handle. Yesterday is gone, tomorrow may not even happen.
4. Enjoy your grandchildren (if you are blessed with any) but don’t be their full time baby sitter. You have no moral obligation to take care of them. Don’t have any guilt about refusing to baby sit anyone’s kids, including your own grandkids. Your parental obligation is to your children. After you have raised them into responsible adults, your duties of child-rearing and babysitting are finished. Let your children raise their own offsprings.
5. Accept physical weakness, sickness and other physical pains. It is a part of the aging process. Enjoy whatever your health can allow.
6. Enjoy what you are and what you have right now. Stop working hard for what you do not have. If you do not have them, it’s probably too late.
7. Just enjoy your life with your spouse, children, grandchildren and friends. People, who truly love you, love you for yourself, not for what you have. Anyone who loves you for what you have will just give you misery.
8. Forgive and accept forgiveness. Forgive yourself and others. Enjoy peace of mind and peace of soul.
9. Befriend death. It’s a natural part of the life cycle. Don’t be afraid of it. Death is the beginning of a new and better life. So, prepare yourself not for death but for a new life with the Almighty.
10. Be at peace with your Creator. For… He is all you have after you leave this life.
Well, I agree with these commandments, except for Number 6.
I really don’t think that just because you are over forty, you should stop working hard. Number 6 is tantamount to saying: “stop striving because it’s too late”, which for me, is not a sound advice.
There are a lot of people who, even in their twilight years had worked hard and succeeded on something they had wanted to have and do all their life but for which they did not have the chance when they were younger.
There’s nothing wrong if one continues to seek a goal provided one is alive, strong and able. It’s never too late. As long as one does not abuse his or her health in the process, working hard to attain a dream in later years is not bad at all, don’t you think so too? 