Who is Healthy?



Do I consider myself to be healthy? 

    To be able to answer this question, I first have to understand what it means to be healthy. Though there are many categories of health such as financial, social, spiritual, physical, intellectual, environmental, mental, etc.. Today I will be talking more about physical health and having a healthy mind because I believe many these three factors affect the other categories, so if any of these three are unhealthy we can easily become unhealthy in categories that are connected to it.
    
    It is true that physical health is very important, how can we move and take care of all the tasks we have planned out each day? How healthy the mind is, it is able to show us how we respond to situations. Do we respond to things in a healthy manner, like taking criticism correctly by working towards improving yourself? Are we the type to respond to things in an unhealthy manner bottling our emotions up and having them let go in uncontrollable times so that we ultimately lose control over our mental health. So yes physical health is important but mental health is just as important. It is important to have a car but it is just as important to make sure we have the correct gas in the car. If we don't we will constantly break down running into trouble, sometimes preventing ourselves from reaching our planned destinations due to the unforeseeable situations we put ourselves in.

    When I get into the mindset of becoming "healthier",  I tend to focus more on physical health, sometimes ignoring how healthy my mind is. Even though I think I'm becoming a more optimal human, at my healthiest, I was always lacking. I never really noticed how unhealthy I had actually become. 

    Over the years, I began to have a harder time developing a social life, I wanted to be boxed in, away from people. I began to lose control over my emotions, like riding on a rollercoaster with a blindfold, not knowing if it's going up or down. I've got to admit it wasn't till recently, in 2019, that I was able to see the error of my ways. I was able to see how unhealthy I had become. I wanted to make a difference in my life, I didn't want to keep living without control over myself. I wanted to make a change; I wanted to make a difference. I knew it had to begin from within me.

What can I improve my pursuit of being healthy; through my goals?


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