Health, wealth and death
Not very long ago, I told my friend that the most important thing is to know what’s going on.
Not very long ago, I told my friend that the most important thing is to know what’s going on.
I was a bit mistaken.
The most important thing is to stay healthy. Regardless of whatever shit you’re going through in life. Being humans blessed with frail memories, we tend to fudge our experiences and lessons as we grow older. We remember something. We forget a lot. And that’s how it is.
The reason why I feel health should be at the peak of our concerns is good health lasts only as long as we are lucky. The moment you sneeze or the minute you feel feverish is a worthy instance of your overall frailty. There are things within your realm and there are microorganisms inside and outside of you much beyond your understanding. Simply put, multi-cellular functionings are a different ball game altogether. Our body takes care of us more than the other way around. And sooner or later, it takes a break too.
During that break, we come face-to-face with several layers of our vulnerabilities. It’s in sickness you realize that you can’t stay still. It’s not the illness that is taking its toll on you. It’s the inertia that follows it. Taking rest is a tiresome activity. Your body is fatigued, yes, but your mind is used to being on the run. There is an imbalance there. Maybe that’s why the walls around you get annoying after a little while and you just want to run away.
Just that you can’t because you are fucking down.
Within these moments, you notice how ridiculous you get with your comparative process. You look at a picture of Cristiano on your phone and you wonder whether he ever falls sick. Or when was the last time he complained of a headrush/headache. Like normal people do. Maybe the image of his superhuman personality forbids him from being ill at any given point of his career. And to me, under the heavy cloud of bad health, that possibility seems like a paradise.
Amid such tumultuous parade of unanswered assumptions, you forget to ask a very basic question: What is that phone doing in your hand when you should be resting?