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bleekerandi · 4 years

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Health

/helTH/

noun

the state of being free from illness or injury.

- a person’s mental or physical condition.

-used to express friendly feelings toward one’s companions before drinking.

For me, health means that I am free from prescription, physical test, bed restrain, needles, and healthy food diet. I remember I was 27 when I first got admitted into the hospital. The cause you may ask is rather unrefined, I got Salmonella, yep those bacterial disease instead of fancy tonsil removal. I know both are equally bad, but being admitted because of diarrhea is not a good story to tell to my kids one day. After the Salmonella incident, the word Health has become important to me. I realized I had underestimate the important of it, I wish I would’ve taken better care of myself.

I have always been the one who think that I would never ever be admitted to the Hospital, at least not until I give birth to my child. I always consider myself as one of the healthiest person among my friends and family. I never needed a regular visit to the dentist like my friend did which makes me think I have a better teeth condition than them. I did however have a minor problem with my eardrum because my Nanny accidentally poke it hard and torn the eardrum. It was an unforgettable traumatic surgery I ever had. But that is it, never again, so I thought it is not a big deal. I never been hospitalized because of dengue or typhus or even chicken pox none of it like other kids my age. But when I got hospitalized on age 27 I realize that my body finally reach its limit. I can feel my organs are aging and it is all decreasing,

I came to accept that I am finally getting older. My mom reminds me right after I was discharged that I need to apply for a Health Insurance (since it’s my country it is an option instead of obligation to own one) and so I start to apply for one. Health Insurance is not a preventive step to being healthy, it is more of a damage control. When I realize the truth that I am getting older and so is my body, I started to think of a way to prevent the preventable, health issue.

Np more being hospitalized..

That Health Insurance is not cheap..

I need to find a way to give my body and its organs a break...

All these thoughts came into my mind and I come to a solution of doing any preventive measure so the worse does not have to happened. Then I started to draw down some of simple to-do list for my greater health.

TO BE HEALTHY I NEED TO....

1. Find a good and strong motivation.

A good and strong motivation has to be the right one, what I mean is that it

must contain a real reason and a reason that has a long term meaning in

your life. I spent my teenage year being an overweight, low self- esteem,

nerdy girl. I know the drill, it means my teenage life were kind of boring

compare to most of my friend, back then I blamed a lot of people for making

me feel so insecure instead of understanding the fact that it is more of what

happened inside me that keeps me from all of great adventure I could’ve

accomplish as one happy teenager.

2. Find the perfect Goal for yourself.

Now that you have your motivation, you need the perfect goal to seal the

deal/ the journey itself. Back then it is always about revenge for me, reve

-nge on the people who bring my insecurities, who i thought belittled

me. As you can guess, it did not end up well, I do lost my weight, but

the confident I am yearning for, I never gained. Now that I am an adult, I

come to realize that my real goal has to be something bigger, some

-thing word achieved and the answer is a healthy lifestyle. I shift my

goal from something so negative to something so liberating. What most

important is that this new goal will change the whole purpose of my diet

to more than just receiving the body I am so eager to have but also to

make me a better person.

3. Find a proper diet to support your health.

Life thought me that it is in the journey or process that we achieved

so much more, rather than the destination. The journey comes in two

form , one of it is a proper diet. My Personal Trainer, when we start to

arrange our weight-loss program, he told me that diet plays 70% part

from the whole weight-loss program. It is a big part all right and that is

why I put it in to this healthy steps. The key to a healthy diet is in our

ability to maintain our body metabolism, for that, you need to balance

your diet with proper sleeping time. The next step to do is what kind of

diet you want . There are so many different kinds of diet nowadays and

believe me, I try almost all of them. No matter which kind you choose,

your diet needs to be well- balanced and easy to maintain. Our goal is to

change your lifestyle for a long term, not a short one. Don’t do an extreme

diet just so you have an instant result, you might loose your weight but a

might end up in the hospital. I will recommend for you to choose a proper one

that will help you loose the bad stuff (in your body) for more of a moderate

time, this I guarantee will have more lasting effect in your overall new healthy

lifestyle.

4. Find a good exercise regime which you will enjoy.

A good exercise will boost up your change to reach out to your goal.

Same as the one before, a good exercise need to be done in a long term

period even after you manage to reach your goal. After all, we are talking

about changing one lifestyle for a better one. I haven’t always been good

with sport, I always have to do a remedial for my PE subject back in

school, was always the last one to be chosen into the team. It is not until

I was determined to loose some weight during my senior year in High

School that I finally found an exercise regime which I actually love.

Circuit training, yep, I know it’s actually just some enhancement version

of what my PE teacher told us to do, but somehow when my Personal

Trainer made me do it, it seems like I can have more fun and actually

like doing it. Until now, I cannot leave a day without doing at least one

hour of treadmill. So I guess this also applies to all of us. The point here

is to find an exercise regime that you will enjoy for a long term without

getting bored of it. Whether a normal gym session, HIIT, cross-training,

yoga classes, swimming, try to find what you really into. It might take

some time but it worth for quite a long time.

5. Find as much support as you can get.

These two step above will be perfectly finished with the power of

support. I think support play a huge role in your mentality wise, whilst

diet and exercise is for our physicality. Both needs to be balance to

reach your goal, both supports each other. To be honest, doing your

diet and exercise routine are not an easy things that is why support

play an important role. You need support from people around you to

remind you why you do this and that what you do is matter and inspire

other. For all my 20 more years of life pursuing a healthier lifestyle it is

not always an easy ride. I found myself having some drawbacks or even

reaching some point where it is more sensible to just give up. However,

the support, the reminder, the encouragement from people around me

and even from myself gets me back up and start again. I know and you

know this is make sense. So try to surround yourself with supportive

people who will help you reach your goal.

This is the 5 main thing which helps me reach my healthy life and I must say that it is still a huge challenge to be done. Obstacles will come in forms like temptation, anger, emotional conditions or even wrong understanding. Took me 3-4 years until I finally found my perfect understanding of “Health”. My point is that, it is important that during our life, our health journey must be maintained. They both go side by side, supporting each other, after all, good health promotes a good long happy life. Doesn’t matter when do you start to be aware of its importance as long as you are now aware of it.

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writingisbae · 4 years

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nano day 9

today’s word count: 3183 / 1800

total word count: 17389 / 50k

So I sort of cheated today, about 700 of those words were from a scene I wrote months ago. But to my defense, I got a cold and am feeling pretty miserable today, so I figured I wouldn’t make word count otherwise. And I wouldn’t have, if I hadn’t come up with a completely new wip idea out of nowhere, which raised my word count significantly.

May I present: Superheroes anonymous

excerpt:

“Hello, I’m Nancy and I’ve never been sick. I know that doesn’t sound that crazy, and honestly, I wouldn’t have even noticed that there’s something unusual about me until I accidentally ended up in a room that was contaminated with the Ebola virus.

See, I work as a nurse. I love my job, but there’s always a certain risk associated with being in close contact with sick people and open wounds 12 hours per shift, several times a week. There are rigorous safety precautions, of course, but if you remember, the Ebola outbreak of 2015 caught us completely by surprise here in the US and, despite our best efforts, we weren’t really properly equipped to deal with the virus.

So I found myself taking care of a patient who was just supposed to be suffering from a bout of pneumonia - quite common with the elderly as you may know - and everything was rosy until she mentioned her recent trip to South Africa.”

Ohs of understanding filled the auditorium.

“I knew immediately that this meant trouble, so I did the only thing I could do. I paged the doctor in charge and informed him of the conundrum.

I should have expected them to quarantine me right away, but I was still surprised. See, I wanted to keep working. I felt fine, and I kept telling them as such but they still wouldn’t let me out until I was officially deemed safe several days later.

So I missed work. That was the first inconvenience, not that big of a deal compared to what happened next.

As you all know, a lot of people don’t accept people with supernatural abilities. They feel threatened, maybe a little jealous, or even worse, they want to study us like guinea pigs in their labs! Guess what happened to me when it became apparent that I may not be quite normal? Yes, I ended up in a nice little cell, poked by needles and scrutinized like a bug under a microscope. And did they figure out why I didn’t contract Ebola even though the sweet lady I was taking care of vomited blood all over my face? No. Did they give up? Definitely not.

If it weren’t for Superheroes Anonymous and Paula Sentino”, I smiled at the lady next to me, an undercover scientist for the organization and my new best friend, “I’m sure I would still be at that lab, robbed of my rights as a human being and locked away until the day I die - if I can die, that is.”

#nanowrimo #writeblr #nano2019 #wip: superheroes anonymous #new wip hype!

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