One of strange things that happen when we get sick is that we lose hope. We have no sense of control of our lives. We don’t know why we got sick, and we don’t know how to get better. The doctor is prescribing some drugs that have a long list of often dangerous side effects, and they costing us money we don’t have. It easy to become discouraged. It easy to think we are too old, too worn out, too poor, too sick to ever get better again. My grandmother talked about a lady where she lived, that at 90 came down with cancer of bowel, and they did an operation and removed a huge chunk of her bowel. Her doctor, was amazed she pulled through the operation, and he fully expected that she be months before she be recovered enough to even walk about. To his amazement, just 3 weeks after the operation, she announced she was going on world tour with her limited funds. The doctor tried hard to persuade her not to set out saying “you could have relapse, you aren’t healed yet, you could rupture, you might have a stroke, traveling is too hard, you could die out there.” She replied, “I can die here too, I realized, I’ve always wanted to go see the world, I should have done this sooner.” So off she went, mere 6 weeks after the operation, and not on some luxury pampered cruise, no- a full real world tour of roughing it — long walks in Africa in the heat -in the tropics, in the great deserts of the world, in mountains, down at the dead sea, in china, in South America, Japan, Asia, Russia, Europe, in cities, in the wilderness, on rivers, in forests, and so on. For years she traveled sending home letters each month of her adventures – traveling on foot, by train, by boat, and when she came back at youthful age of 96, the town folks flocked out to meet her — and they were shocked to see a women that appeared in her late 50s, she looked so youthful, so energetic. She continued to live to be 105 or something like that…
I’ve never had Olive Leaf tea — if I pursue it probably would reduce my blood pressure. Don’t lose hope, keep trying things … and pursue your life passion.
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