Tomorrow Never Comes: Kal Ho Na Ho what SRK taught me is a post I had to write because of many things happening at once. The state of unrest in the world and serious health news on many fronts made me feel glum last week and then I read a tweet by a fellow X er.
It was a light bulb moment. It was a video clip of Sheetal Devi the sixteen-year-old young girl, who made us proud Indians in the Asian Para Games . When you see her taking aim, you realize how full of hope the world is.
This is a Tweet by @theskindoctor13
Incidentally, SRK’s Kal Ho Na Ho was a movie whose songs I loved. I especially loved the name “Kal ho no ho and before launching on any of my adventures that’s what I told my then-boyfriend now husband.
He was not an SRK fan but tolerated my love for SRK movies and then Ra 1 happened and I simply couldn’t watch SRK movies again. It was a growing-up moment. But my disappointment with Ra 1 is not important.
Anand Mahindra puts this in perspective when he tweeted about Sheetal Devi. Problems appear minuscule when we see what Sheetal Devi has achieved.
What’s important is the message of living in the present, doing our best, and balancing QOL with productivity, for sustainable prosperity. Like SRK did with his movies. He made loads of money by working in formulaic movies and making the masses happy. But now he is making movies which he wants to make. They may be misses or hits but he is now working for his own creative passion. Because again, Kal Ho Na Ho.
Remember you can’t wait for retirement to live healthier, travel, socialize, sleep, or be happy. You have to plan your life today to live better now. It’s a barometer we all have. That of well-being and happiness. But it’s not easy to choose Aaj (today)over Kal tomorrow. What can be done today can be done best now. Don’t be a procrastinator.
A well-lived today is the best way to ensure a beautiful tomorrow. As doctors, we are forever giving a multitude of lifestyle advice but the system doesn’t always let us follow those same health tips.
Most Government Healthcare setup is overwhelmed, understaffed, underpaid, overworked, and simply running on threadbare resources. The Government’s good will is strong in most cases, but the system is overwhelmed.
70 percent of poor socio-economic people who come to my clinic(both male and female ) either have some kind of addiction or work in bidi factories. They have a long history of treatment by quacks,and treatment in Government setup and still persistent symptoms of allergy or some kind of pain or infection. Their lack of comprehension about lifestyle habits is sad. But they understand the quality of life when I explain how stopping the addictions could help them get better sooner.
Because tomorrow will only come if we survive today.
But will they choose the right thing to do today?Survival of the sensible and the fittest seems to be the writing on the wall.
