Earlier today, I visited a friend and former neighbor of mine at his shop. He specializes in repairing phones and other gadgets, and I needed one of my Bluetooth speakers fixed, so I had gone to his shop, got it fixed, and paid him.
But rather than leave immediately like I normally would if it was someone else's shop, I had decided to hang back and just catch up with him because it's been months since we last had a real talk.
During one of our conversations, he had brought up the topic about a lady we both used to know because she used to be our neighbor too, who we recently discovered now had kidney problems. He began to tell me how watching that video of her sent a lot of fear into him, and he had to take proactive measures to make sure his kidney was fine, some of those measures being not taking alcohol anymore and others buying certain drugs that he felt would help his kidney.
When he said all of that, we both had laughed about it, but it was that moment when I realized that most times, it's not like we don't know the right things to do to take care of ourselves; we just choose to live carelessly, simply because the consequences of such a lifestyle haven't happened to anyone around us here.
So when we hear people talking about kidney failures, we never take it seriously because we don't know these people, so we don't care. But the moment it happens to someone we know, someone close, the fear sets in because then we realize that if it can happen to this person, then it can happen to us.
And that is crazy because things should never be that way. We should always take extra measures to take care of our health, regardless of if it has happened to someone close by or not. But unfortunately, it is what it is, and most people will keep on doing things the same way.
