Trick or Treat - a survival guide to health care
44 Doing too much The Boy and the Filberts: A narrow-necked jar was full of filberts. When a boy
put his hand into the jar and tried to take a fistful of filberts, his hand got stuck
inside the jar. Unwilling to lose the nuts and unable to pull out his hand, he
started crying. A bystander, who realised what the problem was, told him, "Don't
be so greedy, young boy! Be content with a few nuts and you can easily pull out your hand."
Mr Saxena, a busy industrialist, had high blood pressure that was difficult to control.
He also had recurrent episodes of headache. His doctor told him, "These are stress related. You should take more care of yourself. Take rest.” Mr Saxena asked, "How is it
possible, doctor? I have to work hard and keep my industries going on full steam.” The
doctor smiled and replied, "Don't be such an empire builder, Mr Saxena. If you can be satisfied with a smaller and manageable empire, you can improve your quality of life. You will also have less of the stress related health problems." Comments Human beings have the desire to be in control: be it Nature, other creatures, other
humans or one's own body. It cannot always succeed. The laws of ecology states
Everything is connected to everything else.
Everything must go somewhere. Nature knows best.
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