H for Health.Period.

My heart has been beating a tad bit faster than many around me since I was born. It handles a little too much blood at a time and quicker than normal. Nothing major, but innocent murmur trouble. It is not the kind that needs any medical attention – thank God. But my stamina and control over breathing have always been a tricky domain.

From my teenage, I’ve been conscious about fixing health in general. I’ve been doing something or the other in this direction for years now. This urge got stronger with some major milestones we encountered in Geolin (our family) through my undergrad years. Pappa George was forced to join the Parkinson’s party and Mumma Lin took her membership in the ‘C’ club as they call it (Cancer). Both are happy, healthy, and fighting odds like warriors to date – thank God.
My sister has also had her share of health hurdles since she was a little girl and is still figuring it out.

So over the years, the obsession to stay healthy has been a constant thought in my head. My dad was a super active man and always ate healthy. The same goes for Mumma. But yet they landed where they did. So yes, we could say – in that case, we might as well do everything our way and not bother. But the part about their journey that focuses on the need for a healthy lifestyle is how they are so many years into their respective health crises and are still thriving and fighting it.

Over the years, I’ve silently watched families lose a lot to health with growing empathy. I’ve tried to keep up with the healthy living race. The last 3 years have been extremely rewarding in this front with the partnership of someone who takes health seriously. 

This pandemic can be the last warning for us to get up and walk, to learn how to make healthy food yummy (it is easy peasy), to focus on breathing and to fix ourselves.

One of the worst feelings I encounter today is to have the financial luxury to get treatment but to stand helplessly because there is sometimes no treatment to get.

Watching life fading away in front of you can be hard – even seeing the world will not fix that ache.

Be kind to your body and mind
as it may have to fight some battles
for longer than we think or more than once

PS: Getting into shape or toning (which is not the same as wanting to be slim) is a by-product of following a healthy lifestyle. Shedding happens to be a starting point for most but that should not be the motive in the long run.