I'm Not Healthy
Yesterday I had my first experience of Rapid Test. It's a process done by the Doctor of taking at least 3 drops of your blood to check if you are positive or negative of the coronavirus. The test usually takes around 10-15 minutes. I was one of the employees who were listed to take the test as I was the one who checked-in an LSI who was a carrier of the virus. Thank God I'm negative, and I'm not experiencing any symptoms of the virus as well.
A day before the test and after finding out that I was listed, I became extra cautious with my health. Not that I was nervous about getting prick by a needle, but I wanted my immune system to be more durable especially in this time of pandemic and in my line of work. I ate veggies and lots of fruits that day, I drank more water than my usual intake, and of course, getting enough hours of sleep. After the rapid test, I was relieved. Then it made me realized, "Am I really Healthy?"
When we say healthy, I believe it's not just about our physical health, or the amount of nutritious food that we take per day. It's also about our:
Mental Health
Physical Health
Spiritual Health
Intellectual Health
Financial Health
Emotional Health
That's a lot of responsibility for a human, right???
But due to our busy lives, we tend to forget and neglect the other areas of our health. Some, just focus on their physical health, some also just focus on their financial health and neglect the rest. I admit, there were days or months that I have neglected the other areas of my health too.
Mental Health:
Way back before this pandemic invaded our world, I didn't have a lot of mental issues. Well, I do but these issues rarely attacked me as I have a lot of things to do, and focus on that made me forget about my anxieties and overthinking sessions. But when the lockdown started and as it lasted long, I admit, my mental health declined too. My job used to be my escape, and so was traveling with my friends and my boyfriend. But the pandemic temporarily closed my work and refrained all the people around the world to travel. At first, I was doing fine. I had a lot of time with my family, my younger siblings. I went back to my old hobbies. But later on, it just went quiet. And with the emptiness and quietness that my mind was on, it became an open gate for my anxieties to enter and invade as well. I became restless, my mood swings turned on, I get cranky over little things, I pick senseless fights with my boyfriend, and eventually, my dark days started due to that issue that I'm pretty sure my active readers knew about. It became worst when those dark days became even darker, and I won't go into detail how. I lost my inner peace and I became more emotional than ever. But I thank God for the right people who truly helped me and stayed with me despite everything that I've been through. This paragraph would be much much much longer if I would go into detail on how did I recover but I would give credit to 8 people and to God who helped me all the way. EIGHT PEOPLE. That's right. Not plenty to count but they were all meaningful and helpful to me.
Mental Health Grade: 6/10
Physical Health:
Thankfully, I don't have much issue with my physical health as this has always been one of my priorities. I exercise, I jog biweekly (although it's rare now ever since our work is back to operations), I am a water person (water is life haha), I actively eat veggies, and I rarely eat junk foods. If there's one issue that I'm struggling right now with my physical health, it is getting 8 hours of sleep. Aside from my main job during the day, I also have a sideline job that requires me to stay up late from 7pm-5am as that is the duty hours of this 2nd work. Or even if I'm on my week-off on my sideline, I still don't get enough sleep as I do a lot of things at night; blog, watch a movie, chat, youtube, or play mobile games. Will I ever achieve this 8-10 hours of sleep? I hope so hahaha soon Cindy, soon.
Physical Health Grade: 7/10
Spiritual Health:
I think Spiritual Health is the most important area that we shouldn't forget. No matter what religion or belief you may have, it's important to have a hopeful outlook in life or to have something to hold on our faith that would give purpose or meaning to our lives. I'm a Christian and I go to church every Sunday with my boyfriend. I also read the autobiography book of Reverend Sun Myung Moon, "As a Peace-Loving Global Citizen" in which his mission was to bring peace to the world and following God's path. This man's life had really inspired me how so down-to-earth he is and how he's very determined to spread peace into the world even if it means he's going to jail or he might get killed by people who disapproved his beliefs. I'm still in the middle part of the book but I figured that this book is a great help to my Spiritual Health aside from attending masses and reading the bible. But you know what? Our spiritual health is not measured by how often we go to church or how often we read the Bible, but it's how we apply God's word in real life. Right now, I'm still working on it. I still am.
Spiritual Health Grade: 6/10
Intellectual Health:
We have to admit, our intellectual health has declined too ever since the lockdown. Especially to students who had to pause their studies in schools in order to ensure their safety from the virus. But I have a few tips for you if you want your intellectual health to keep on working. As we have plenty of time at home during this quarantine, we can read as many books/newspapers as we want. It awakens our brain's imagination and gets our mind working as we read through the pages. Aside from that, learn at least 1-2 new skills. I just learned to play ukelele this quarantine hahaha. When we're learning new skills, it also gets our brain at work. I am also an active player in Sudoku as I think it's a great exercise for my brain too.
Intellectual Health Grade: 8/10
Financial Health:
It's kinda hard to talk about finances during this time of pandemic as we all know that many people are losing their jobs or currently have no jobs due to the temporary closing of companies. Some people are opening up their own small businesses just to get by and have a new source of income. I am blessed to have 2 jobs right now, my day job as a hotelier, and my night job as a virtual assistant. These had really helped me and my family with our bills and food. But to maintain my financial health, I save 40% of my salary combined as savings, 50% for my family, and 10% for daily expenses (fare, meal, gasoline, other personal expenses I may have). Although sometimes, adjustments happen, depending on my family's needs: like there are months where I can only save 20% as my family needs 70% for that month, and it's okay. As long as I have savings, big or small, it's already worth it.
Financial Health Grade: 8/10
Emotional Health:
This area is kind of related to our Mental health but this one is more on involvement with other people. I have always been an emotional person, and so recently I'm being more protective than ever with my emotional health as much as possible, as a form of self-love as well. I'm becoming more sensitive to the people around me and how they contribute to my emotional health. Because of my "dark days", it helped me exposed who the real ones are, in my life. It exposed who were the fake ones, the toxic ones who are just waiting for my downfall, and the real ones who helped me and stayed with me. And because I am so protective of my emotional health, I cut off people. Yep. Lots of 'em. Like total cut off. I stopped caring about whatever history or moments I may have shared with these people in the past. If you're now toxic, untrustworthy, gossipy, judgemental, and inconsistent with me - I will fucking cut you off. No hesitance. I am not born in this world to collect lots of friends or fans, but I am living here for myself, and for the few people who I love and love me too. Right now, I am so at peace knowing I have my family, 6 real friends, and my boyfriend with me. See? You don't need a crowd to live a peaceful life. Just have the real ones around and you're good to go.
Emotional Health Grade: 7/10
Total Average of my Health: 7/10
So to answer the question, "Am I really healthy?", I would answer NO, not yet. There's still a lot of work to be done with my health, especially with my Mental and Spiritual Health. But don't worry Cindy, because we're still not done. As I've always said, live, and learn. I'm an unfinished business and I'm very much looking forward to enhancing my overall health in the future. Ciao! ❤️️
A day before the test and after finding out that I was listed, I became extra cautious with my health. Not that I was nervous about getting prick by a needle, but I wanted my immune system to be more durable especially in this time of pandemic and in my line of work. I ate veggies and lots of fruits that day, I drank more water than my usual intake, and of course, getting enough hours of sleep. After the rapid test, I was relieved. Then it made me realized, "Am I really Healthy?"
When we say healthy, I believe it's not just about our physical health, or the amount of nutritious food that we take per day. It's also about our:
Mental Health
Physical Health
Spiritual Health
Intellectual Health
Financial Health
Emotional Health
That's a lot of responsibility for a human, right???
But due to our busy lives, we tend to forget and neglect the other areas of our health. Some, just focus on their physical health, some also just focus on their financial health and neglect the rest. I admit, there were days or months that I have neglected the other areas of my health too.
Mental Health:
Way back before this pandemic invaded our world, I didn't have a lot of mental issues. Well, I do but these issues rarely attacked me as I have a lot of things to do, and focus on that made me forget about my anxieties and overthinking sessions. But when the lockdown started and as it lasted long, I admit, my mental health declined too. My job used to be my escape, and so was traveling with my friends and my boyfriend. But the pandemic temporarily closed my work and refrained all the people around the world to travel. At first, I was doing fine. I had a lot of time with my family, my younger siblings. I went back to my old hobbies. But later on, it just went quiet. And with the emptiness and quietness that my mind was on, it became an open gate for my anxieties to enter and invade as well. I became restless, my mood swings turned on, I get cranky over little things, I pick senseless fights with my boyfriend, and eventually, my dark days started due to that issue that I'm pretty sure my active readers knew about. It became worst when those dark days became even darker, and I won't go into detail how. I lost my inner peace and I became more emotional than ever. But I thank God for the right people who truly helped me and stayed with me despite everything that I've been through. This paragraph would be much much much longer if I would go into detail on how did I recover but I would give credit to 8 people and to God who helped me all the way. EIGHT PEOPLE. That's right. Not plenty to count but they were all meaningful and helpful to me.
Mental Health Grade: 6/10
Physical Health:
Thankfully, I don't have much issue with my physical health as this has always been one of my priorities. I exercise, I jog biweekly (although it's rare now ever since our work is back to operations), I am a water person (water is life haha), I actively eat veggies, and I rarely eat junk foods. If there's one issue that I'm struggling right now with my physical health, it is getting 8 hours of sleep. Aside from my main job during the day, I also have a sideline job that requires me to stay up late from 7pm-5am as that is the duty hours of this 2nd work. Or even if I'm on my week-off on my sideline, I still don't get enough sleep as I do a lot of things at night; blog, watch a movie, chat, youtube, or play mobile games. Will I ever achieve this 8-10 hours of sleep? I hope so hahaha soon Cindy, soon.
Physical Health Grade: 7/10
Spiritual Health:
I think Spiritual Health is the most important area that we shouldn't forget. No matter what religion or belief you may have, it's important to have a hopeful outlook in life or to have something to hold on our faith that would give purpose or meaning to our lives. I'm a Christian and I go to church every Sunday with my boyfriend. I also read the autobiography book of Reverend Sun Myung Moon, "As a Peace-Loving Global Citizen" in which his mission was to bring peace to the world and following God's path. This man's life had really inspired me how so down-to-earth he is and how he's very determined to spread peace into the world even if it means he's going to jail or he might get killed by people who disapproved his beliefs. I'm still in the middle part of the book but I figured that this book is a great help to my Spiritual Health aside from attending masses and reading the bible. But you know what? Our spiritual health is not measured by how often we go to church or how often we read the Bible, but it's how we apply God's word in real life. Right now, I'm still working on it. I still am.
Spiritual Health Grade: 6/10
Intellectual Health:
We have to admit, our intellectual health has declined too ever since the lockdown. Especially to students who had to pause their studies in schools in order to ensure their safety from the virus. But I have a few tips for you if you want your intellectual health to keep on working. As we have plenty of time at home during this quarantine, we can read as many books/newspapers as we want. It awakens our brain's imagination and gets our mind working as we read through the pages. Aside from that, learn at least 1-2 new skills. I just learned to play ukelele this quarantine hahaha. When we're learning new skills, it also gets our brain at work. I am also an active player in Sudoku as I think it's a great exercise for my brain too.
Intellectual Health Grade: 8/10
Financial Health:
It's kinda hard to talk about finances during this time of pandemic as we all know that many people are losing their jobs or currently have no jobs due to the temporary closing of companies. Some people are opening up their own small businesses just to get by and have a new source of income. I am blessed to have 2 jobs right now, my day job as a hotelier, and my night job as a virtual assistant. These had really helped me and my family with our bills and food. But to maintain my financial health, I save 40% of my salary combined as savings, 50% for my family, and 10% for daily expenses (fare, meal, gasoline, other personal expenses I may have). Although sometimes, adjustments happen, depending on my family's needs: like there are months where I can only save 20% as my family needs 70% for that month, and it's okay. As long as I have savings, big or small, it's already worth it.
Financial Health Grade: 8/10
Emotional Health:
This area is kind of related to our Mental health but this one is more on involvement with other people. I have always been an emotional person, and so recently I'm being more protective than ever with my emotional health as much as possible, as a form of self-love as well. I'm becoming more sensitive to the people around me and how they contribute to my emotional health. Because of my "dark days", it helped me exposed who the real ones are, in my life. It exposed who were the fake ones, the toxic ones who are just waiting for my downfall, and the real ones who helped me and stayed with me. And because I am so protective of my emotional health, I cut off people. Yep. Lots of 'em. Like total cut off. I stopped caring about whatever history or moments I may have shared with these people in the past. If you're now toxic, untrustworthy, gossipy, judgemental, and inconsistent with me - I will fucking cut you off. No hesitance. I am not born in this world to collect lots of friends or fans, but I am living here for myself, and for the few people who I love and love me too. Right now, I am so at peace knowing I have my family, 6 real friends, and my boyfriend with me. See? You don't need a crowd to live a peaceful life. Just have the real ones around and you're good to go.
Emotional Health Grade: 7/10
Total Average of my Health: 7/10
So to answer the question, "Am I really healthy?", I would answer NO, not yet. There's still a lot of work to be done with my health, especially with my Mental and Spiritual Health. But don't worry Cindy, because we're still not done. As I've always said, live, and learn. I'm an unfinished business and I'm very much looking forward to enhancing my overall health in the future. Ciao! ❤️️
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