Living: At What Cost?
I read a post about a man who found out he had an illness, but he was fortunate to detect it early. He didn't just need to make lifestyle changes, he had to completely change 80% of what he used to be, and this meant quitting his job and rearranging his life entirely.
Long story short, the man quit his job, undertook some risky and expensive treatment options and after about 2 years, he was completely free of the ailments and he had no traces, even though it was deemed impossible to achieve. Of course, he ended up broke, spent his life savings, and dedicated his life to doing things that might save his life and not what he truly wanted.
In life, money is always the first motivation because we need it to truly live.
Sometimes we push ourselves to crazy limits and break our endurance levels, especially because chasing money is not a race. It's a marathon and most times we have to keep giving: health, time, commitment, and sacrifice, or else we might only be able to afford to feed and pay rent which makes us bypassers without impact in life.
A lot of people do not want to be bypassers, they want to build houses, and mansions, ride expensive cars, break the barrier of poverty and all. This means they'll need to keep giving the things they're organically and inorganically endowed with. At the end of the day, we're often very surprised that some of the prices we pay aren't actually worth it.
There's nothing that can replace life, money indeed makes living essential and enjoyable, but one of the lowest points in life is being in that place where you need to start giving all that Money you've now made to procure good health again.
There are people in life who will never attain this low point, even after risking everything. This is the kind of natural luck that some people are bestowed with. However, life cannot be fair to everyone and this is why the essence of reality is weird and hardly makes any sense. However, people seek what they don't have, or give what they have to get what they truly want.
No one keeps what they have intact while getting the other things they also want. We're designed in such a way that we'll always keep "wanting", this is because we're not naturally self-sufficient, and this is why we inadvertently incur unfavorable life circumstances while seeking for the things we want in life. We're created to always want, and even when we're psychologically satiated, we're once in again slutted back into the rat race, because we will always want more the more established we become.
The state of our mind and body declines gradually the more we compete, and sometimes we're blinded by the "survival mindset" that we tend to give everything. Life is chronic, its natural state can be fleeting, this is why it's difficult for people to come to terms with how old they are. They feel they're too young to get sick or be poor, forgetting that sometimes we don't truly know what we're giving, because what we want is what we mostly focus on.
At the end of the day, we have our justification: we have to feed and we need to groom a family, continue the bloodline, and keep them happy.
This also proves that human nature is sacrificial, except that sometimes there are people who selfishly put themselves first at the detriment of the next person. There's no wrong or right when it comes to paying the price of living, it's a marathon and no one has all the answers.
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This leads to the principle of balance, it's very important to focus on balancing our wants with our strength and what we have. We can end up loosing all we have and still not getting what we want, just like you said humans will always want, but going for what you want at the end getting it and not being able to enjoy it is another big problem. Balance can help although it won't eradicate all the problems we have or the ones that will even come..
Well balance is hard, life itself doesn't follow a pattern of balance, there's a lot of irregularities which makes it virtually impossible.
Human needs are insatiable, balance is very important in life.
True indeed
Life with good health and money is a big problem
That's relatable to me
Money shouldn't be a factor in health, but it is. Access to medical care is becoming expensive everywhere, here in the US it's mostly the governments fault. It's really sad and shouldn't be this way!
How are you doing this week?
To really get good health care here you need a lot of money too. Some of the public hospitals are wack and most of the private have clueless doctors. It's true, sadly one needs a lot of money to get good medical care.
I'm here, I did some kidney testing yesterday and surprising they weren't as bad as two months ago, I had to ask the guy doing the tests if the numbers were true because the numbers looked too good to be true, and I probably doubted it, so I'll probably be doing another testing in 3 months time.
It means your diet is probably helping! Keep it up, even though it's hard to do, believe me I know! Congratulations! Improved kidney function is great news! Chances of it being wrong are pretty low, that's a basic test that's hard to mess up.
Probably, and my potassium level was 3.5 as against the 5.1 it was two months ago, I nearly screamed in joy, even though I'd been taking lisnopril. True my diet did change and I'm incorporating beet roots again since my potassium level is good.
Before I left I was doubting the result, it's incredible how change in diet did a lot.
That is fantastic my friend! Lisinopril is an old friend of mine that I've taken for years..... It does increase potassium and wastes sodium, so your diet is helping! Keep it up! I love beets, I eat them daily for their nitric oxide, definitely can't hurt unless it drives up that potassium level. Just don't over do on the beets! I think that's incredibly encouraging! Things are looking up!
True, I was going to ask if you take lisnopril, I hear it can be good for the heart. I was taking 2.5mg and now I've stopped. Does it also help for you too?
As for beet, I intially didn't take it because of the potassium, I watched my diet and stopped plantain and potatoes, so I'm sure I won't overdo beet. I've been taking tumeric and ginger and even if the leave this taste in my mouth it really has improved my hemoglobin with fruits too. I was a bad eater and I can't believe in over 30 days I've not had red meat.
I can't tell you to take it, I'm not your doctor. I do take it for blood pressure reasons at a much higher dose. It has been shown it studies to protect the heart and kidneys, which are important things to protect. If it were me I would take it! With your kidneys having issues it's a smart move in my opinion. I have to be careful here, it's my opinion, but if your doctor prescribed the medication it's because of the large studies that were done.
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May we not have a health issue that will require us to sell all what we have just because we want to live
I’ve seen cases like this and it can be really crazy
Good health is underrated
Money is everything at this time. If a person has money, he can live a good life. If he has money, he can spend his life comfortably with that fire in summer. It can also change your life.
Wealth and money are necessary to have a good life or we would live uninteresting and dull lives. Thanks for writing.
Maturity allows us to prioritize health and family, earning a lot of money is rewarding but I do not want to spend it in a clinic because I did not know how to stop, I prefer to take things slowly, in case it is a necessity it is better to make a savings plan and adjust.
I prefer to take things slowly too, but then some people chase money with everything inside of them, it's until they've begun to notice how much it must've affected their health that they begin to retrace their steps.
Unfortunately, we humans are greedy... Most of us... Some are greedy for money, others for attention, or something else... And we always want more and more... Without being aware of the price that we are paying for getting it... Sometimes the price is health or money, but in the end, we all pay the price of everything with TIME...
In your anecdote, the man has realized that he is sick and did everything to get well... Paying with all savings wasn't that bad as he got more TIME... It was a good deal!
Yeah, we're mostly greedy for one thing or the other and mostly fail to realize how much or the sacrifices we have to make to get them.
As for the man, paying with all his life savings wasn't bad, it was a good deal indeed. I'm just wondering how much of a sacrifice he must've made and how we often give off what we currently have because of what we want.
The cost of living, in and of itself is getting more expensive. And when we add the wants or desires that we also have, we begin to realise that the cost might be too much for us to pay. I personally think that to get more out of life than we give will be hard. Whatever we want or need comes with a price and we must pay it before we get it. In hindsight, some of them are simply not worth the cost.
Well, I feel that life itself is becoming generally demanding. There are a lot of things in life we need to sacrifice a lot of things to get. It's paradoxical, sometimes we need to give off an important aspect of us just to get something else in return.
Right. It feels and seems that this 'transactional relationship' with life always ends with us on the losing end, given that life itself has become more demanding. Sometimes, it makes me nostalgic for old times when everything was much simpler.
It's definitely a marathon and we never know what will really happen. It sucks to know that but we can only do the best that we can do. I do hope that everything goes well with your life because I know it's been tough for you. Money and health will always be issues we need to consider.
Yeah, money and health is always an issue and to be very honest it's probably the most important thing to the average person out there. For me, my life is probably not as it used to be, I've lost the most important things to me and it just feels unreal.