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what are you waiting for? So what are you waiting for, A complete medical disaster That ends your strife So you’ll get a life Where you are your own master? How awful to have a heart attack That will halt your slow decline And make you stop So you’ll get on top A lifestyle you’ll design. How terrible to suffer a stroke Becoming paralysed So you cannot follow A life that’s hollow In which you’re dissatisfied. How catastrophic to get a cancer That clouds your future years And in despair You start self care To overcome your fears Don’t wait for these dire warnings For you to now proceed. There’s no time to lose For you to choose A life that fills your needs. |
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the doctor's thoughts ......... When we follow a life that that feeds our ego, a life that is driven by external demands, a life that is judged by what we possess, our social position or fame, or by the power that we wield over others we will never feel safe for it can always be taken away. The more successful we become, the more vulnerable we become. We spend more and more time, more and more energy protecting our position. The problem is that we can never see it ourselves. I never saw it in me. Luckily I had my patients. I saw so many patients have major medical disasters, heart attacks, strokes, cancer, suddenly realize that what they were doing in life was superficial and unimportant. Their illness gave them a completely new paradigm to life, what was important, what fed their soul rather than filled their pocket. It was amazing to observe the major lifestyle changes that they were able to immediately put into effect. Later they often told me that their illness was "the best thing that ever happened to them". It prevented them wasting the rest of their lives. Eventually I looked in a mirror and said to myself, “What am I waiting for, a heart attack, a stroke, a cancer?"
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