Sunday, February 20, 2005

Today... something had a pretty deep impact on me for some reason. In the lifestyle section of today's newspaper... I came across an article on my junior's sister. She suffers from all kinds of ailment and lands in hospital about once a month.

She is still so cheerful although she suffers from stuff like chronic adhesion colic, fibromyalgia, NMH and chronic fatigue syndrome. Sometimes I wonder... whether she is just putting on a front, and am in self denial or is she really cheerful. Sometimes I wonder... maybe... she is luckier than the rest of us. Through her illness... she has learned how to treasure her life and people around her. She has really learnt the through meaning of living a full life unlike us. All we know how to do all day is complain that our life is the most terrible among all the people on Earth, that this thing and that thing suck, that we hate our nose, mouth, eyes and why she has this and I don't have this. She has really touched me very deeply... maybe all the more so because I know her sister.

She has a online journal at http://www2.caringbridge.org/asia/joanneho/history.htm . She really looks like my junior.

May she be blessed always and may there be a cure one fine day for all her ailments.

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