Please take care

Well recently a good friend share with me what happen to her. As I was listening, I used what she told me to reflect on my life and the way that I have conducted my life. But I am glad that she trusted me enough to share with me her problems.

As usual given my helpful nature, I tried to help as much as possible, but I practise a bit of wisdom here. Because she is attached, when I offer my help, I have to be careful not to overstep till I cause misunderstanding. But anyway, that is another challenging issue and it will be a test for me. :)

But on reflection, I would like to remind all my good friends or whoever that are reading this blog entry. Please take care of your health. In order to tackle problems in our life, we really need a healthy body and mindset to help us through the process of solving problems in our life. A healthy body can be easily maintained relatively of course compared to having a healthy mindset. You need to eat healthily and exercise regularly, we have an idea how to improve our health. What about having a healthy mindset? Well, this is more difficult as we grow older. Why? Because as we grow older, our thinking tends to be conditioned by our environment and past experience, the more we are conditioned, the stronger is the conditioning and the challenging it is to change the thinking, since we have 'strengthen' that mental muscle.

If we do not stay healthy mentally and physically, there are two consequences. Firstly, we are not able to help others that are in need, because we do not even know how to take care of ourselves, any 'advice' that you put forward will not be convincing. And worse, we become a burden to our family members and friends. No man is an island. Your good friends will definitely worry about you and wants to help you. But then again, their help to you is limited. Whether you can stop being a burden again greatly depends on you.

And don't take things for granted. Cherish what you have and be grateful about it. You never know when it might be taken away from you because everything is in a flux, impermanence. So please cherish what you have, give it your best effort in everything.

All my good friends, please take care. :) As for the other good friend, don't think of the whole situation but give it your best everyday and soon it will be better. You definitely can count on that. And if you need help, feel free to tell me. :)

Cheers!