Chasing Success Made Me Forget Health

Two days ago at night, when I went to sleep, my body wasn’t feeling good and I thought maybe it was because of all the work and I was just tired. But I didn’t know that it wasn’t because of tiredness, and my mind kinda told me that tiredness doesn’t feel like this. Still, I thought, let’s sleep, maybe it’s just tiredness, and I went to sleep. But I woke up in the middle of the night.

In the middle of the night, my body temperature was really high and I was feeling so cold. That’s when I knew something was wrong and it wasn’t just tiredness. I knew I had to do something before it got worse. I first went to my second room where I usually put my phone. A lot of people I’ve seen keep their phones next to them, and maybe they are doing it right.

Many people keep their phone next to them because they think that if they get an emergency call, they wouldn’t be able to attend it if their phone is not close by. I know they’re right, but it’s kinda not good to keep your phone next to you. Some people even keep it on the bed while they sleep.

I don’t do that, I put it in the next room. Even if I get a call, I can hear it since the room is really close to mine, so it’s not a big deal. If I got a call in the middle of the night, I would still be able to hear it. I usually do this so I can avoid using my phone all night and sleeping with it like many people do, especially teenagers these days, which is not good for health.

So, two days ago when I wasn’t feeling well and I woke up in the middle of the night, I went to the second room, which I already explained is close to mine, to pick up my phone. I picked it up and came back to my room. I turned off the AC and lowered the fan speed as I was feeling cold and unwell. Even the slow speed of the fan was feeling like minus cold weather...

So first, after picking up my phone and coming to my room, I called one of my friend’s father who is a doctor. I had his number, and the reason I saved his number was in case our family doctor didn’t pick up the phone. I got my friend’s father’s number like a year ago.

Before calling him, I called my family doctor many times and he wasn’t attending the call. I thought maybe he was sleeping, but unfortunately, he was out of the city and had left his phone at home. I know this now because I asked him today when I started feeling a bit better. I called him more than 10 times but no one picked up. Then I remembered I had another doctor’s number in my phone.

I remembered that I had the number of another doctor who lives close to my house and is my friend’s father. So I called him and told him, "I am ABC," and he said, “Yeah kid, what happened? It’s late night, is everything alright?” I told him, “No, not at all,” and explained the whole situation, about the coldness, the body pain, and he said he would prescribe a few tablets for me.

He told me he would write some tablets that would help me a lot for now, and that I should go to the nearest hospital to check if everything was normal. He told me to visit his clinic the next day if I didn’t get completely better with those tablets. I told him his clinic is close to my house and I’ll visit him. I asked about his fees so I could send it online, and he told me there’s no fee for someone who’s a friend of his kid.

He said, “You’re a friend of my kid and you’ve helped him in many situations.” I won’t share what those were in this blog because that would be considered a flex. Anyway, he sent me the names of some tablets through chat after listening to my condition on the call. He told me to take the pills and if I didn’t feel better, then I must come to his clinic. He said, “I’m sure you’ll be fine.”

He said after I take the pills, I probably won’t need to come to his clinic, but if they don’t work, I must visit. I took the pills and fell asleep. I don’t know how, but after taking them, I slept really fast. The next day when I woke up, I felt a bit better but not fully. My body still had pain.

The doctor had told me that if I still feel pain after waking up, I should continue the pills for the whole day, twice a day. He also told me the right timings to take them, which I followed, and now I am completely fine and feeling good. The pills worked, and my Allah has given me health. I don’t know, that night was so bad that I felt like I wouldn’t sleep at all.

The reason I thought I wouldn’t be able to sleep was that I could feel it in my heart, with so much body pain and high fever, how could I sleep? But after taking those pills, I slept really well. Maybe it was because of the pills, not maybe, for sure. I thanked the doctor and called him when I felt fine. I told him everything and he was happy and told me to keep resting even if I feel good.

He told me earlier too that after taking the pills and feeling better, I should still not do hard work like I do in my business, and that I don’t even sleep for two days. He told me to rest properly and avoid doing hard things like going from one town to another for business deals and then the next day going to another state. He said it could bring the fever back. So when I called him, he reminded me again to rest.

So, I would say, if you don’t focus on your health, in the end, you’ll lose it. You won’t even be allowed to eat a simple steak. I’ve seen some millionaire friends’ fathers who are not even allowed by doctors to eat a simple dish. And that’s because of health. They have millions and can afford a whole restaurant, but their stomach won’t allow them to eat.

From that, you can understand how hard it is for them, they can afford it but can’t eat it. So you can understand, it’s all in God’s hands. Some people can eat but can’t afford, and some can afford but can’t eat. It’s all God’s plan, and whatever God does is for our health and good.

So, I would say health is everything. If you have everything in the world but no health, then you have nothing. From that sentence, you can understand how important health is. If you don’t focus on your health, in the end, you will lose it. So be healthy and always focus on your health. Health comes first, everything else comes after.

I’m saying it again, focus on your health. Health is everything. The reason I’m saying this is that I know how I survived in that bad condition. I know how hard it is to fight with your health. I’m saying that health is even more valuable than money. I’ve seen people who are allowed to eat only one dish for their whole life, even if they don’t want to.

They’re allowed to eat just one dish. It doesn’t matter if you can afford something. If God doesn’t want you to eat it, then you can’t. It’s all in God’s hands. So I would say, focus on your health first instead of chasing money first. Some poor people are happier than rich people, and the reason is health. They’re healthier than the rich ones.

I haven’t been focusing on my health since the day I started my business journey. Business has kept me so busy that I forgot about my personal health. But since last week, I’ve joined the gym, and I’ll keep going to the gym until I feel I’m healthy now. I think everyone should go to the gym. Going to the gym doesn’t mean lifting heavy weights.

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Going to the gym means doing a little exercise. Doing gym doesn’t mean you’ll be lifting heavy weights or taking a lot of protein or eating a lot. These are things people do who are fully focused on gym, especially many teenagers, which shouldn’t be done. We shouldn’t focus only on gym, because then it won’t let us grow financially. Just growing your body won’t make you rich.

Only those whose career is in gym should focus only on gym. But teenagers do that, which affects their studies and financial condition too. I’m not doing that. I’m not fully focusing on gym, I’m just going to the gym to stay fit, not to get muscular. I go to gym just to do some light exercise, not hard stuff.

In the end, I would say, health is everything. Without health, we have nothing. I want to say, go to gym, be fit, and take your health seriously. Money comes and goes, you should earn money too, but don’t forget your health while chasing money. And in the end, I’d like to say thanks for reading till the end and have a good day!