It is true, when you have a healthy body and mind to begin with. If you don't, this is only a partial truth. To someone like me to fall sick as such a "young" age, I can start to begin to think, the second phrase for this famous saying is, "the number can only add but cannot substract".
I had a stroke recently, after further understanding my situation, I came to understand my condition that doesn't involved hemorrhage is called the schemic stroke, which caused by internal blockage. Never in my life will I imagined I became part of that statistics, to contract this kind of sickness at this age.
It was just about 2 weeks ago, I am feeling larger than life. I can run, I can jump, I can play the guitar with the church choir, I can drive my stick shift car, I can eat a whole loaf of white bread and still be hungry. To me, 50 is just the beginning of another chapter.
And now this chapter of sickness opened and said, if I don't start to seriously take care of myself, the chapter either ends here, or the story keeps going - but without me. With the new sickness in me, it's a whole new level of learning for me. I can still walk quite normally(not quite without my walking stick), but I cannot run at all. Meaning that if I lift my right leg off the floor entirely, I will lose balance and immediately slam to the left. My stomach sensors are all upside down now. I feel hunger, but when I try to eat, I feel full very quickly. The problem being, once I stop eating, my feel like wanted to eat some more.
Trust me. I did fed myself with the normal portion I normally eat, and then ended up I have a bloated stomach for the next 5 hours. I will keep burping until I sounded like a bullfrog. No I'm not trying to be negative, for your information I've been doing many physiotherapy exercises, and walking more steps in the past week, probably more than my usual month in total.
I'm just saying, age is not only a number, it's also a reminder of how much time left for our body to live in this world. When you're healthy, you have all the freedom to enjoy life, age is just a number. When you're not, even if you're 50, you'll be running out of subsequent number for you to be added.
