Being in the emergency room for a long while gives one an opportunity to reflect on certain aspects of your life! So why are you there in the first place? This is the last place you want to be on Xmas day. People are there because of mental health issues, physical or even emotional problems! Now you start to observe your surroundings , and evaluate what’s happening . People who are in there are either drunks who had a great time the day before, or mentally disturbed because of various reasons…maybe they felt unwanted in the home, or were physically and/ or emotionally abused,,,,probably they had health issues . Who knows? They are awaiting treatment regardless of the waiting time! They need it! You see the doctor attending various patients whose relatives’ expression seem far from being happy! Bad news , i guess…..most of us were in that situation at one time,,,we know how it feels, especially on Xmas day! Now it is your turn,,,life threatening , or limited survival time…who cares,,we all have to go! Do we let our relatives know, or do we spare them the agony or despair? It is our choice! We rely on our knowledge of what is going on with the relatives before we share or fabricate the results! We should realize that the endgame is the same. Is this really the emergency? Our whole life is an emergency! Our decisions, our choices,,even our thoughts are of critical value! That is the real emergency! That is what we need to get fixed,,,STAT!! Emergency in the hospital is no emergency at all….physical, social..or even mental,,,does not matter…THE MAIN EMERGENCY IS YOUR DECISIONS AND CHOICES!! TIME IS LIMITED. How long will you wait? You are not a patient awaiting the doctor’s report! You are the doctor prescribing your treatment….your medications,,your choices,,,,,,THIS IS YOUR EMERGENCY …SO WHAT IS YOUR DIAGNOSIS ? LIVE NOW OR SUFFER LATER?
The Mask
Is this a saying or is it a movie….the man with a thousand faces (I would say ..expressions instead of mask ) ? Are there people like that ? I really believe so…especially where the expression part is concerned! People take up acting careers and later move on to theaters or movies…surely, they portray various roles..good guy..bad guy etc , thus showing their skill at wearing different masks! Applying different methods to act the roles, they use the service of the make up artists. I guess that without the makeup, they will still be plain old John or Jane Doe with lives worse than us, and characters that will put them to shame! So, they are people with a thousand faces…masks…expressions! In our daily lives, we tend to do the same….different masks for different occasions. It is tough to say that we remain the same from birth to the present ! Our experiences, environments and even encounters shape us…we respond differently to various stimuli! Our responses are not limited to a single one but to several….we choose the one which we feel is the best in handling the situation..it is our choice! We are not robots programmed with a single reaction to a single situation. The human brain is fascinating and complicated! So we are complicated. We are human. Each person has different characteristics, and so behave differently from each other. Even though we have that character/ principle baseline which we value so much, a simple harmless kitten may exhibit the roar of the lion under certain circumstances! It is better to tell the truth and be thought of as a cruel person, than to tell a lie while wearing the mask of the innocent, and having people liking you? So , wherever you are now and whatever you are doing, which mask are you wearing?