Look at it this way...

How often has this happened to you? I am a fresh victim.

Just about a week ago, I was discussing electronics with a close friend of mine. We were talking about 16 GB pen drives and 500 GB and 1000 GB hard discs. About how the time has come for me to order one from abroad now.

How data storage is the need of the hour and how 1000 GB would also not be enough a couple of years down the line.About how we would stock up on hundreds off movies..We were talking animatedly, our careers nicely on track. It almost seemed like it was the only unfulfilled wish in our lives at that point.

There are many times when I get carried away likewise , about my subject -Oral Medicine and Radiology. About how i need to top an exam, give a good..no... great presentation...Where I feel that it is the only focus of my life.

The day after my friend and me had that conversation, his wife fell sick and had to operated. He left town for a few days and came back today.
I spoke to him on the phone and the conversation was so different from that day that it got me thinking.

Sometimes, we need to look at ourselves from outside, to somehow get outside our bodies and our personalities.We need to look at ourselves with the big picture as the background. It helps to get a huge reality check on our goals, ambitions and priorities. How much do they really matter ?
Health always always comes first. Its when we respect the fact that our body is almost a miracle and our luck is in, on each day that we don't fall sick , that we have really made it.

Im an asthmatic. I have all the pre-clinical sign and symptoms of diabetes. I get very painful periodic acute cramps. I have a very painful oral condition called Recurrent Apthous Stomatitis Minor. And Im losing my hair.

I know what it feels like to go a year without an acute attack of asthma.....one day without any cramps... a week without any ulcers in my mouth...

A lot better than topping an exam or giving an excellent presentation. Trust me.