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Are you OK, Annie? Who knows? I am still standing…yeah,yeah,yeah!

6.3.2010

Are you OK, Annie1? Do know why2? I am still standing…yeah,yeah,yeah!3

In the course of our conversation, I casually asked my accountant about his health. To this he replied, “Oh, I did my medicals and the doctors told me that my results were fantastic. The doctors were so happy with the result and told me that my results were better than the cardiologists’.” That’s P, my accountant, the ever optimistic chap who looks at the world from a very positive outlook. You ask him about his son who was studying in Ukraine, he would say the lecturers were so impressed with his performance and so are the Consultants he is working for now as a house officer. And his daughter is so happily married in the cold mountains of Germany!

Well good for him, P, if only everyone in this world is as contented as him, the world would be a better place and it starts with the man in the mirror4.

On one hand, I feel happy for him for his good results as it gives him a sense of satiety to enjoy his happy life as he is. On the other hand, it gives him a false sense of security. That started me thinking, one of my friend’s sister was diagnosed by a professor in UHKL to have a lethal form of lymphoma back in the 80’s. Her prognosis was grave and her days were numbered, so she was told. As the Americans say, when the going gets tough, the tough gets going, she went on various traditional medical treatment modalities – Indonesian, Chinese, Japanese and Indian. The testimony of her endeavour is that she is still standing and has outlived the professor by a good 10years so far. So, has Prof Balasegaram, the first liver surgeon who was diagnosed to have Chronic Renal Failure in the 1980’s who is still going strong yoday at the age of 80 also outliving the physician who gave him the bad news!

Nobody knows how healthy or sick a person is! An able body can just collapse just like that after a brain aneurysm. Nobody can say that he is healthy. Every living day is a gift from the Almighty and all of us are living on borrowed time. We should be glad that we can actually get up in the morning and continue with life. Que sera sera, whatever will be will be5…Obladi Oblada! Life goes on bra…6

References:

1. Michael Jackson: Smooth Criminal

2. Norah Jones: Don’t know why

3. Elton John: I’m still standing

4. Michael Jackson: Man in the mirror

5. Doris Day: Que sera sera

6. Beatles: Obladi Oblada

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  1. sheila22 March 2010 at 11:14

    Hi,

    A westerner says that the Accountant is contented with life. But an Indian says he talks big..Hee

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  2. rifle range boy22 March 2010 at 11:46

    in that way Amma did not talk big about any of us even though we did alright!

    ReplyDelete

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