And so, it has emerged that I suffer as a young adult a mild-severe loss in hearing, an unexpected onset of eczema last year, and haemoglobins found in lab tests to be further verified. A friend joked, there's something wrong with my brain, not knowing how close to the truth he was. My best friend is more worried about my not being able to hear than myself. While both my dermatologist and ent specialists say - reduce stress, knowing themselves it being impossible in this metropolitan.
This metropolitan, can we really blame? I questioned my sub-department head if he thought it was only his department that was too stressed. This was on the basis that we're the only department in the company who lost 3 lives - 2 + 0.5 + 0.5. Maybe more, that I am not aware. 2 foetueses and 1 succumbed to schizophrenia another to diabetes and depression. I count the latter two as 0.5 each. How controversial for him to think that all these are mere coincidences! How is it such a mere coincidence that the staff he hired happened to bore such illnesses? Why did he not think that probably all humans are not perfect, no staff in any department are perfectly healthy? When I told another sub-department head about my predicament, his view was, by hook or crook, LEAVE.
Our health, is the only gift we have. Health, brought on by happiness, a healthy lifestyle of sports and balanced-diet, a healthy environment.The number one risk to this health happens to be stress. Not the virals, nor the genes, but really stress. We are born imperfect. We are born susceptible to viruses and our genes probably hiding millions of diseases. But everybody is healthy around us, or so it seems. Its really, how you take care of yourself? How do you protect yourself from stress?
We exercise, eat fruits and vegetables, drink alot of water and walk in parks for a fresh breath of air. However, these are all external. Internally, to prevent the build up of negative energies from emotional stress especially, our antibodies need a healthy dose of happiness, relaxation and a healthy emotional state to stay strong. Internally, the antibodies once weak, become susceptible in spite of external support.
Even stress, there are two main kinds. I group them as emotional stress and mental stress. Emotional stress is, in my opinion, the worst form of torture. If we could mete this out as a punishment to prisoners... but I digress. Emotional stress stems from being 'bullied'. Mental stress is plainly out of high expectations, stems from the need to perform. Humans when bullied are psychologically under duress, they may choose to voice it out or keep their grievances in within, both are bad. Voicing it out results in life with the bully being unbearable. Keeping it within makes it more bearable but the internal build up of injustice will break the skin. Mental stress, IMO, is easier to escape. Lower expectations, mindset shifts can help adjust such stress.
We can do something about mental stress. But, besides leaving, there's nothing much to be done with emotional stress. Unless one identifies the bully and provides counselling for her. So let's learn from this and not be bullies ourselves. Life is challenging as it is, why make it harder for your fellow human?
I propose here a universally effective solution - LOVE. I think humans, especially Asians, are very restrictive about loving. They condemn themselves to only love blood related relatives besides their life partner. What's there not to love about your comrade, your friend, your colleague or even the aunty who helps to clean your school's toilet?
Let's love more, and generate global health.
