In Sickness And In Health

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Last night I became a little ill, I couldn’t do anything stressful because I was advised not to and I was on drugs, it was a serious migraine headache and I have had symptoms like 3 days back so l knew it was there. I drank a lot of water to subside the pain because that helps me often and I was trying to avoid taking drugs. Oh, how I hate taking drugs and am grateful I hardly fall sick. But last night, the feeling was something else, my head was spinning, when I try to walk, every steps I take I feel it in my head, like there was a bang. I had to lay low on my bed while I rest. I couldn’t just stay there doing nothing because sleep wasn’t coming, I couldn’t close my eyes. All I wanted was to write.

Writing is a personal thing, we all write differently and whatever we write represents us when we are absent in space and in time. Writing expresses deeply of who we are, even after our life time it is still there. It makes our ideas, our personal aspirations and our work for the future visible to others. It is the means to explain our ideas to ourselves and to others while preserving our personal experiences and our memories in inks. Writing connects you deeply with yourself. Regardless of your occupation or career, everyone has to write to communicate with each other, whether it is a friendly email, a formal business memo, a report, or even a message of condolence. The effectiveness of how you write on who you’re writing to is determined by choice of writing on how it should take effect on the reader.

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Then I picked up my note pad which is always on my bed and started writing. I wrote down my thoughts about how I was feeling as at that moment and the importance of appreciating good health that cannot be overemphasized. Good health is the best key to handling stress to living a longer, and more active life. Our social environment is one of the important factors in our individual health, alongside with our lifestyle and food we eat determines our health level. With a healthful lifestyle, you get the full meaning of life and living with purpose. Be it your financial health, mental health, physical health or even spiritual health. Trust me, when your health is at a stable level, your finances and everything is stable, you’re living your best life in good health and happiness comes in. But what then is the importance of happiness when we’re not in good health, how can one be happy in sickness? It’s not possible to an extent, even if you have the whole beautiful things in life on that sick bed, your family and friends all around the place to make you happy, but as soon as they leave it’s all gone and sorrow struck in.

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We need to be happy in order to be truly healthy and by maintaining staying healthy, we need to eat the right food, exercise more often, learn to build our mental health because that’s where it always start from. And lastly, building a healthy relationship with neighbors, friends and colleagues. If we mistreat each other we cannot stay healthy or happy because it is what we do to others we get in return. Social equality and peace are important for individual health.

According to @owasco in her post the end a weekend freewrite

Times were tough. Another world war had been started: one group of psychopaths claiming another group of psychopaths had to have a comeuppance, and the best way to do that was to murder many innocent humans, who were dispensable.

peace is what we need

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