Today’s tip: WASH YOUR BRAIN TWICE A DAY!!!
Time does fly. It already has been a couple of weeks since that awful weekend when I got home to ‘sleep’ on my couch through shivers and joint pain; fever and headaches. It all started with a hardly noticeable temperature on Thursday afternoon. I had planned to spend the weekend, beginning that day, at a friend’s house. Mine was under massive fumigation to get rid of the voracious and invisible bugs that were biting me almost every night, so staying there was not an option.
The plans changed the minute COVID-19 came up as an option. I had tested negative for malaria and typhoid, had a blood infection, but COVID-19 had to be discarded. Weekend plans no more! That’s where my loneliness started, but I had yet to realize it. Unless and until you are sure not to have the virus in vogue, you have to isolate, fumigation, or not, and so I did.
The weekend, as I told you last, was crappy. Then, I thought it was because of my body aches; now I know it was also because I felt lonely and this brings me to the tip of the day: we need to balance our worries -and care- for our bodies and our minds!
Yes, my body was fighting an infection, and we were trying to figure out what was happening inside. It so happened that I also had malaria after all, but with the appropriate treatment, I recovered. However, I was also fighting the effects of loneliness, and that is why the weekend was crappy.
It took me a good additional week of bad nights, hiccups, fever and pain to get well, but those days were inconvenient, not crappy. The minute I was certified COVID free, my friend took me to his place, several of you brought food, asked about my health daily, and the wife of one of you even gave me an injection in the comfort of my friend’s house! I was sick but not alone, and it made all the difference.
As you will see in Dr. Winch’s conference, the effects of loneliness, rumination, rejection, failure, and other psychological injuries are serious. However, the good news is that there are psychological band-aids and treatment. I got mine treated through you, and I got well thanks to you. But what if you had not been there?
Perhaps the time has come for us to learn and teach each other -and our children- that our mind is as important as our body; that we need a healthy mind as much as we need a healthy body. Perhaps we should tell ourselves and our children that we must wash our teeth at least twice and day, and ‘wash’ our minds with equal or even more zeal also at least twice a day.
May you have a great week. Thank you again for your love and companionship. Reach out if you need mine. I would be delighted -and honored- to oblige.
Take care, and stay safe.