Health is wealth

At home on a Sunday evening, having gone through an existential crisis, recovering from dengue and having myriad of thoughts running through my head. First and foremost is gratitude to the higher reality for being able to recover from home and not being admitted to the hospital. The magic potion was the papaya leaf juice, dragon fruit and kiwi. Second to have been able to go to school, my workplace at intervals and receiving the best possible support from both the places. 

Every sickness suddenly shows a mirror to you and shakes up your life. It makes you look at things with different perspectives. A meeting, a conference, a workshop which you were looking forward to now fades into the corner. The only report that holds supreme are the blood reports and the doctor's verdict. Health and healthy living become the sole objective of one's life. The phrases, 'What is life? 'It's time to live to the fullest' gain predominance and one tends to become philosophical, at least in my case. By now I must have smothered my son with million hugs and kisses.  

It is in sickness that one sees the true faces of human nature. For some, the distance was too daunting to visit, for some the distance never mattered. For some, the calls were made as a mandate, for some it was genuine concern. Funny, how easily we are able to read and recognize true friends during bitter moments of our life. These mirrors are also important as it tells us that eventually we should live for those who matter and should stop trying to please those for whom we don't signify. 

Overall, the best moments of recovery were the sporadic hours

 at school because when you see the children moving by laughing, talking, jumping, making noise you realize life is truly beautiful and precious and one needs to value it to the utmost. 'Value life; value health'. 

In retrospect, it is good that in these fast-paced lives that we lead, trying to be a part of every event there are lapses where we fall mercilessly, completely dependent on others to support us. It is those moments where we realize that we are eventually vulnerable and only family and friends can pull you out so invest in them completely. We can never truly be self-sufficient but surrounded with love we will always be over cared and over pampered.