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Health & Fitness

The Case, The Fear, The Rejuvenation

There is an expression that says “Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more so that we may fear less.” This was said by Madame Marie Curie who was a French-Polish physicist and chemist. She did pioneering research on radioactivity and established the use of radiation therapy for cancer and lupus.

She was way ahead of her time and she sadly died from radiation overexposure in 1934.She coined the word radioactivity.

Marie Curie did not fear much. She was a brilliant scientist, long before females accomplished things like this.

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Her saying of not fearing anything in life is a bit broad. We do fear things, perhaps things we should not let take over our lives. Some of the things we fear are daily events that seem to take over our life at once. We fear obtaining a new job, of marrying, of having children, of getting additional schooling. We fear them in a different manner than perhaps health problems, financial problems and work problems. Fear is “The soul’s signal for rallying.” Said by Henry Ward Beecher.

When I fear something, I feel like it overtakes my whole being. Then I rationalize it out by seeking why I am feeling this way and then I can see what is causing this feeling.  I had to  start using a cane to walk better, probably for only a few months, I do not like the way it ‘shows’ me when I am out in public. This is a silly notion; I am not a public figure, just an old lady who needs it literally as a ‘crutch’ to walk easier and to take off the load on the bad knee. I had my first lesson a few weeks ago. I transformed its rhythm of cane down, right, left, cane down, right left, like it was a new dance step, I use to learn when I was taking coaching for ballroom dancing.

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This is how we learned, we placed our foot down, said it out loud, repeated it and finally it became second nature. When we first started to dance, we thought we needed to look down at our feet; else they would not move into the right position. After a few times, it became a natural way of dancing and we no longer looked down at our feet. They moved themselves along with our brain, who was directing them from above.

So now, I look at this pretty black and shiny cane and I think of it as a new friend. I will not fear it or the way I look using it. I will rally for myself and realize that it will help me to walk better and perhaps and hopefully help the sore knee into getting better. Then, one day soon, perhaps in a few weeks, I will walk without it and once again I see myself as more upright, less fearful and I will have shown myself revived into recovery and renewal.

Renewal of my ‘dreams’ of  dancing once again, walking into many different stores in a mall and most of all of standing up straight as a seventy-nine year old senior can do.

As Madame Marie Curie said I will understand that sometimes in life, a fear can turn into a reward, that when accomplished becomes a ‘giant step’ even if it is used with a cane. This cane becomes a symbol of me trying something new to help enhance my life. Here goes, today is day twenty-one of using that shiny black cane and maybe this cane will be a symbol of the revival of my walking better. We take walking, standing and almost everything for granted. I no longer do that because to walk well is to me a great need and a new accomplishment. So here is to the symbol of the new cane I am using for a while whatever color it is. It is renewed hope to do the simple thing of walking with less pain and more confidence. The fear of using it, is replaced by the gladness I will reap from doing so.

I will rally and I will show Elita that to help one’s self is a great denial of fear. So fear will not take over my life in any other events that may occur and I shall ‘stand tall’ from today on.

Let us rebound, recover, and rejuvenate our lives.

 

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