The death of an opera tenor.

It happen again. This time an opera singer and he dropped dead with a heart attack at his early fifties. It was reported  in the Star newspaper two days ago. What happen? A healthy man walking his dog in an early morning and while at his height of his career  doing a job  he love and doing charity work for churches and schools. Good man die young? What kind of logic is this? So , doing evil will make us live longer? Do we start bargaining with Devil?

Yesterday , my sister told me that her hawker friend selling "lor mee" which I used to favor have also gone. She visit the stall recently and was informed that he has gone to sell "salted eggs". He was also in early 50's. Recently, two or three state assembly men also died at their 50's and elections have called to replace them. What happen?

As I see it, it is the life style and stress. If our life style is unhealthy we know it and our family members can see it. They will warn us but it will depend on our self to control it. It takes alot of determination to change old or bad habits. It is our indulgence in lazy life style and bad diet  that kill us.

The most important factor which kill us is stress. It is a silent killer and it push up our blood pressure quietly and cloak our blood vessel and damage our heart. It does not happen overnight but it is gradual and builds up the toxic deposits over the years. It like in ancient China a poison that is tasteless, fragranceless and painless which kills through gradual consumption. When the dosage is enough, it trigger a spark to light the deadly "bomb" in our body.

All of us know what I have said about the subject. There have been more detail literature about it. Reminding it serve no purpose if we do not take any actions. Just a simple analogy comparing it to property price.  It have been years ago, that people have been talking about rising property price in Penang island. The land is limited on the island and people love to live on the island , so as more and more people live on the island, it creates a demand and the supply of land is limited as more and more projects take up the idle land, so forcing up the price.  It is a simple economic theory of  "demand and supply". It is so simple to understand but people in the past knows about it and not taking any actions until the price is so much higher now. Now, most of them cannot afford to buy landed property now.  We are always right from hindsight and if we exercise abit of logic and gut, we can also be right n the foresight. Knowing it and not doing something about it is two entirely different things.

We should follow Nike's motto " Just do it". Don't wait anymore, start some exercise to make your body healthy and strengthen your resistance to stress. This may not be the only thing right for you as each person have their own way of de-stress and relaxation. We have to understand our physical condition and work out  an individual programme to handle our body and mind, But, the common logic thing to do is "just do it " now.

Namaste.