I was sitting in my consultation chamber when a car screeched followed by an unusual honking. I am deadly against unnecessary honking, and it irritates me.
Before I could check out the commotion, the door opened and without a prior appointment, a middle-aged gentleman walked in limping around with a walking stick. His affluent attire, gold chains, and an ornate solitaire in one finger spoke of his arrogance.
‘Doc, check my knees I am in terrible pain.’ He said without waiting for my attention.
Before I could offer him a seat, he pulled out a stool and sat down like a huge lump of potatoes.
‘I have consulted the best doctors in the best hospitals but to no avail.’ ] ‘Doc, I HATE the problem.’ “Please do something about it; you are a good Orthopod.”
Here’s where personality duality comes in.
In life everything has to be good … be it a profession, a beautiful wife, good caring children and loads of money to flaunt. But you are not able to take even slight negativity; you actually HATE it.
‘Liking’ and ‘Hatred’ should be in the same balance.
If I love certain nice things, then how about loving the things that I dislike.
Ain’t two feelings, two sides of a coin.
As a doctor I deal with all kinds of ailments and sufferings; I recommend that just for once, start loving and respecting your sufferings.
Trust me the misery will be halved or even more.
NOTHING IS PERMANENT.
When I am happy, I know that sadness is soon going to follow.
When I am sad, there is a bright side, because I know that happiness will follow.
I disliked the rich patient’s attitude because he was selfish. He wanted only the good things in life, as if it was his birthright.
LOVE YOUR DISEASE, is the Message.
It has temporarily intruded into your life, making you feel Alive and Positive. Remember, this is going to break the monotony of mundane life.
Just imagine how good you feel when the thermometer shows that the fever is gone…or…the blood sugar becomes normal…or..your lipid profile goes down … or… the weighing scale shows a downward trend.
The disease is just a reminder of that superpower: ‘Hey, you are living.’
The more you hate the suffering, the more it is taken over you; more than physically, it haunts and smothers you psychologically.
Develop the ‘Power to control the subconscious mind’ (Famous book by Joseph Murphy, 1997)
Feed your mind that you love suffering and that it is not going to stay that way.
It may sound contradictory…. ‘When my back hurts I don’t take medicine. The pain acknowledges the presence of a beautiful and robust back.’ … Believe me, the pain doesn’t stay for long.
But, if I constantly curse the pain and my incapability, the misery stays forever.
So, LOVE YOUR PAIN… It will smile at you and will leave you soon.
The day you HATE it, it will sadistically hold you, maybe forever.
First of all I would like to say sorry as I also came to you many times without any prior intimation or appointment or with random information without knowing your schedule. I was totally unaware that you mind it. Extremely sorry for that.
Secondly after you find out all the things that can go wrong, your life becomes less about living and more about waiting.
Thirdly whether I or anyone else accepted the concept of disease didn’t matter; what mattered was that when treated as a disease, those who suffered from it were most likely to recover, as I believe. Sometimes it became too difficult to accept long lasting pains as a part of life. I do agree that every disease takes time to be cured.
Somewhere if you feel that I m wrong, you can overlook it.