What? No full refund??
Tiring day, but I remember this story that was told to me last week and I think I should share it with as many people as possible. So despite having a very tiring day, I decide to pull myself from my bed and to my working table to write this. I hope it would make more people jump up and take action to take care of their health.
I was on my way to Bugis last Saturday and happen to chat with an old guy who is travelling on the same bus as me. How we are able to strike a conversation, I cannot remember. All I remember is he was asking me for bus directions. Anyway, he was telling me he came from Sabah and was here in Singapore on a short trip. He was telling me the health challenges he had. When he was young, due to the nature of his job, a construction worker, he has to work at sites that have loud noises. He did not take care of his ears during his stronger years, and he started feeling the loss of his hearing strength. He was starting to become deaf. Being desperate, he spend his savings which is abt $20K to see doctors to gain back his hearing strength. But alas, the doctor told him because his ears has been exposed to loud noises continuously for a long period of time, there is no way he can get back his full hearing strength anymore. In summary, he spend $20K to gain back his hearing but could not get it back to normal.
He told me he regretted not taking care of his health, spending such a huge amt of money to treat his hearing but still not able to gain it back fully. I was wondering why such a msg was passed to me in such a way, out of nowhere an old guy came and share with me his health challenges. Maybe to allow me to share with my readers a real life story of not taking care of one's health? ;)
Moral of the story is one should really do MAINTENANCE to their health and not hope for REPAIR.
Like I mentioned so many times, when we 'repair' out body,there is a reasonable chance we are not able to gain back the full functionality anymore. For example, osteoporosis, diabetes, cancer and so on because usually it would be too late and too little we can do when we discover we have such illnesses.
And the worst thing is because of these illnesses, you would have spend an estimated $30K or more to treat it and still NOT able to gain your full health and normal lifestyle back. Assuming you spend only $30K to treat your illnesses and still not able to gain full body function. Would it not be better to spend $30K on supplements to reduce the chance of contracting the illnesses and still have a fit and healthy body to work and move around with?? $30K, assuming you spend $200 per mth on supplementation, would mean it can supply you12.5 yrs of supplements. That is a lot.
People who are sceptical abt supplements usually say "Why have expensive urine?" "Why be so paranoid?" "Popping pills is a sign of weakness." Well my answer to all these scepticism is , at least I would not have huge regret, like the old man above for not taking care of my health and ended with a less than normal body functionality and empty pockets.
Those who are sick so often, please PLEASE start taking good care and maintenance of your health. Supplement wisely, start exercising and eat healthily.
Cheers!
I was on my way to Bugis last Saturday and happen to chat with an old guy who is travelling on the same bus as me. How we are able to strike a conversation, I cannot remember. All I remember is he was asking me for bus directions. Anyway, he was telling me he came from Sabah and was here in Singapore on a short trip. He was telling me the health challenges he had. When he was young, due to the nature of his job, a construction worker, he has to work at sites that have loud noises. He did not take care of his ears during his stronger years, and he started feeling the loss of his hearing strength. He was starting to become deaf. Being desperate, he spend his savings which is abt $20K to see doctors to gain back his hearing strength. But alas, the doctor told him because his ears has been exposed to loud noises continuously for a long period of time, there is no way he can get back his full hearing strength anymore. In summary, he spend $20K to gain back his hearing but could not get it back to normal.
He told me he regretted not taking care of his health, spending such a huge amt of money to treat his hearing but still not able to gain it back fully. I was wondering why such a msg was passed to me in such a way, out of nowhere an old guy came and share with me his health challenges. Maybe to allow me to share with my readers a real life story of not taking care of one's health? ;)
Moral of the story is one should really do MAINTENANCE to their health and not hope for REPAIR.
Like I mentioned so many times, when we 'repair' out body,there is a reasonable chance we are not able to gain back the full functionality anymore. For example, osteoporosis, diabetes, cancer and so on because usually it would be too late and too little we can do when we discover we have such illnesses.
And the worst thing is because of these illnesses, you would have spend an estimated $30K or more to treat it and still NOT able to gain your full health and normal lifestyle back. Assuming you spend only $30K to treat your illnesses and still not able to gain full body function. Would it not be better to spend $30K on supplements to reduce the chance of contracting the illnesses and still have a fit and healthy body to work and move around with?? $30K, assuming you spend $200 per mth on supplementation, would mean it can supply you12.5 yrs of supplements. That is a lot.
People who are sceptical abt supplements usually say "Why have expensive urine?" "Why be so paranoid?" "Popping pills is a sign of weakness." Well my answer to all these scepticism is , at least I would not have huge regret, like the old man above for not taking care of my health and ended with a less than normal body functionality and empty pockets.
Those who are sick so often, please PLEASE start taking good care and maintenance of your health. Supplement wisely, start exercising and eat healthily.
Cheers!
posted by Strategist at 9:54 PM
2 Comments:
$30K on supplements...I don't think an average Singaporean (lest a construction worker) got that much amount of money to spare.
Health in some sense is a long term thing. Many people are not inclined to work on their long term problems if they are not even able to deal effectively with the short term problems and daily expenses like ERP, transport fee, job insecurity etc.
That is the problem here in Singapore. There are too many short term things to worry abt, in the end they are not able to focus on the long term. Which put more pressure on their medisave. If Medisave can form part of the retirement funds one can take out from CPF, then maybe it would be another story.
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