The year was 2015, my father turned 49 this very day, celebrated with our family, hiding his pain of dialysis, hypertension and diabetes, without realizing that 10 days from then, he would be no more.
Seven years ago on this very day, I had no idea that I would be thrust into the realities of adulthood, with all the responsibilities and burdens my father had previously shielded me from. I had witnessed similar departures from my grandfather, grandmother, aunt, and my mentor in engineering; My father died in a hospital, with all the advanced medical equipment and expert doctors around him. Jan 21, 2015 was his day of final goodbye.
That is when I realized how worthy is my body, my health and how I have been taking it for granted. If there's one thing I don't even want my worst foe to go through, it's dying in a hospital, sucked out dry of life, like a lab rat. Today, a video from Youtube, made me reflect on those grave memories, cry and resonated with what I have had in my wordless mind, to share with the world about dying. Watch below and share it too, for this is a very important message.
Don't take health for granted. We take so much time, effort and money to shape how we want to live, but very little care is going towards how we are going to transcend the inevitable, how we are going to die.
We have been brainwashed to believe that death is something that we don't have control over. With a little care and few conscious habits, we undoubtedly have the right, duty and freedom to decide how we are going to face death.
Eat less. Leave more for others and live more together.
Eat only when you are hungry, Do not eat whatever that gets marketed.
Drink only water. Drink only when thirsty.
Sleep when your body naturally wants to sleep; stay awake when it doesn't.
Do not be anxious about tomorrow
In memory of my Dad, to whom I owe everything, yet, done nothing; to whom I have countless things to be grateful for in my life.
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