Ars long, vita brevis On July 8, 2010 will complete two months of surgical removal of the appendix. For those unaware, I had to do (or did for me) an emergency surgery. It all started one day earlier on Friday with a pain in the abdomen and unusual, sharp and persistent. From lunchtime until five o'clock when I decided to go home, was still at work and not know how I keep going over and felt that pain (symptom
workaholic?). I went home to rest and see if they "passed the pain" - not happening. This is when connecting an internal warning that something is wrong, and then went straight to the hospital near my home (Mother of God).
The summary of the story: they made the diagnosis, palpate the lower right abdomen, ultrasound and blood test, the result was that he had appendicitis, infection and needed to operate the next day. In the hour hits a panic, a feeling of not wanting to accept, but before I just accepted it as the best option and let things go, after all, the other option is to go home and die of overwhelming infection.
The operation was successful, and had not spread to the abdomen (not sutured / unexploded / etc.) was relatively simple without the need to open a huge gash. I have three holes in the belly, where the tubes to operate via the camera were inserted. My recovery was good in the first week was still sore and tired, the second week I got back to normal. I was fortunate to have the help of good friends
to recover me and help me with the "operational" here at home.
Thank you from the bottom of my heart for this .
But suddenly this event made me rethink a little in the way of life he was leading in question and priorities when it is live. Obviously not got too many conclusions but reflecting little, one thing bothered me:
was to have adopted a lifestyle that has become standard in Brazil , resulting from years of good economy. It is the centralization of
life as pure consumerism, where the goal is to have things (to show others) are included in this career focus
,
prepare for the labor market , "empoweirar" and "Tweaker "life to be competitive - meaning stolen so silly English to mean the exaggerated self-improvement of productivity and performance" in life and in day-to-day. " I think the summary is the greed of wanting to always have more, earn more. It is car of the year, new house, new furniture, LCD TV 50 inch full HD, Playstation 3. Entertainment in FULL HD and other things of immediate consumption.
Not that I do not want a car or a house , or have good entertainment and comfort. Far from it,
I like to have and enjoy quality services and objects not blame anyone for this - for example, I love Apple computers, tech toys that are expensive and elites. What I blame is the aggressive and reckless consumption of the middle class, usually caused by "social pressure", where people have the products not for himself, but to show to others, to be accepted in that circle of relationship. This kind of lifestyle I want to be outside.
Making use of an old cliché, the most important thing in life is your life, regardless of anything and everything: parents, children, family, friends, work, etc..;
the instinct of self-preservation and demand happiness is inherent. In one of the moments that preceded the operation, I tried talking to God - yes, my faith has to do with the fear of death - and one of the "claims" to want everything to go well was to build a family. It is a genuine desire, but now I see that is quite out of my reality. Unfortunately I can not have a relationship based on the type of lifestyle that most families try to live, I can be very misinformed, but apparently that lifestyle is at odds with what I think now, especially with the expectations women about having a home and family.
Another point which I think is important to reaffirm that the work is important and rewarding to for a personal life. No matter what type of work (physical or intellectual), or what you earn, but you feel like you doing and what do you get in return (money, success, recognition) with him. What I dislike is
supercentralização of career due to our consumerist life, or when inconveniently, your private life is mixed with your very life, and especially the blind and superfocado work that we end up doing when he becomes a workaholic
.
I do not know if I can get some conclusion to this article, but I think one of the things I see as the "antidote" I think that's bad in the middle-class consumerism today is the appreciation of good deeds and good friendships, you can count on a good conversation and company of positive people, creative, full of will to do something. Another point to highlight is the importance of doing something for you, always striving to make something that pleases you (music, reading, gardening, doing some project at home). I think it's important to try to do something to your circle of life or society, or an activity for the group or activity can help other people.
I still can not reach this stage of personal development, I sincerely hope that one day I can break a little bit of comfort and vision "territorial reptile" that accompanies me. Finally, since no one will get the same conclusion and the text of a treaty turned my moralism (which did not want it) the title of this article is a quote from Greek philosopher Hippocrates, who I found on some reading any of this life, the translation was arranged by me, so my interpretation is:
Ars long, vita brevis, Occasio praeceps, experimentum periculosum , iudicium difficile.
Art / Craft is a long / hard, life is short, the opportunity is fleeting, experience is dangerous and the trial is difficult.
(Hippocrates).
