The Gift Of Health

1. The Illusion of Misery

2. The Gift Called “Health”

3. Your Soul - A Silent Vault

4. Small Exercises to Reconnect with the Value of Life

5. Epilogue: Life Is a Gift — Not a Guarantee

📖 Chapter 1: The Illusion of Misery

How many times have you thought, “I can’t take it anymore”… about something that, in reality, is nothing?

A bad grade on a test.

An argument over football.

A misunderstanding at work.

A rejection on Instagram.

A comment you didn’t like.

A “Sorry, I can’t see you today.”

We live in a world that magnifies the meaningless and shrinks the essential.

We give importance to situations that have no real weight — and ignore things that are truly a matter of life and death.

How many times have you been upset because your team lost a match, while at that very moment, a child next door is fighting to stay alive?

How many times have you gotten angry because your child failed a class, while another child is being bullied every single day, yet still wakes up and goes to school?

This is the illusion of misery:

The false belief that our problems are massive — when in reality, they are small, temporary, and often meaningless.

It’s not wrong to feel sad.

It’s human.

But it is a crime not to recognize your blessings, not to appreciate what you have — especially when others would give everything for just a piece of your “normal life.”

Happiness isn’t “everything is perfect.”

It’s “I have eyes — I can see.”

“I have legs — I can walk.”

“I have a heart — and it’s beating.”

It’s “I wake up in the morning — and I’m still here.”

The illusion of misery steals the joy of everyday life.

And worst of all? It makes us ungrateful.

The first step to changing this is awareness:

✔ That we are alive.

✔ That we have a body.

✔ That we have a soul.

✔ And that alone… is a miracle.

📖 Chapter 2: The Gift Called Health

Have you ever woken up with a headache and felt like you had no energy for anything?

Have you ever felt your body aching, and suddenly everything in your day felt heavy and hard?

Now think:

If a simple headache can ruin your whole day...

What about someone who lives every single day with cancer?

Or someone who is fighting chronic pain or struggling with mental illness?

Health is a gift.

And it’s the only gift that, if you don’t appreciate it, one day you’ll realize how much you missed it — but it might be too late.

Your body carries you every day:

➡️ It gives you the strength to stand.

➡️ It lets you hug someone you love.

➡️ To run, to laugh, to take a walk without thinking twice.

Your mental health gives you:

➡️ The ability to feel joy,

➡️ To hope,

➡️ To dream,

➡️ And to endure.

But we forget all of this.

We lose our center in the noise of daily life.

We complain about traffic, the heat, the coffee not being sweet enough.

Meanwhile, in that same moment, people in hospitals are fighting to breathe without machines.

People with depression are struggling just to get out of bed and say, “Today, I choose to live.”

📖 Chapter 3: Your Soul – A Silent Vault

The soul can’t be seen.

You can’t touch it.

You can’t measure it in numbers, and you won’t find it on an X-ray.

But it’s there.

And it’s the strongest — yet most delicate — part of you.

Your soul is like a vault.

It holds every emotion you’ve ever felt.

Every joy, every sadness, every wound, every rebirth.

And often… it holds things you’ve never told anyone.

💬 Your soul remembers

It remembers the words that hurt you.

The people who disappointed you.

The hugs that never happened.

The “I’m fine” lies you told.

The “it’s nothing” that quietly crushed you.

The soul doesn’t forget — it simply goes quiet.

And when it stays silent for too long, it starts to weigh you down.

It shows its weight through your body:

Fatigue. Anxiety. Sadness. Unexplained pain.

💡 Care for your soul the way you care for your body

Just like you go to the doctor when your body hurts,

you should listen to your soul when something aches inside.

Cry when you need to

Speak when you feel overwhelmed

Ask for help — it’s not weakness

Write down what you can’t say

Give yourself permission to feel

Your soul doesn’t need you to “be strong.”

It needs you to be real.

🌱 Healing your soul isn’t easy — but it’s worth it

Healing isn’t “I pushed a button and now I’m okay.”

It’s a journey. It’s making peace with the past. It’s starting over.

And yes — it takes courage.

But every step you take toward the light

is proof that life still exists inside you.

✨ Your soul deserves peace

Not just when everything is going well.

But especially when you find the strength to stand in the middle of the storm.

Your soul is your truth.

Don’t silence it.

Don’t forget it.

And above all — don’t underestimate it.

📖 Chapter 4: Small Exercises to Reconnect with the Value of Life

You don’t need to go to a mountain or a monastery to find meaning.

The truth is right in front of you — every single day — but we’ve been taught not to see it.

Here are small, simple things you can do to reconnect with the miracle of life:

✍️ 1. Write down 3 things every day that you have — and take for granted

It could be:

“Today I opened my eyes and I could see”

“I had something to eat”

“A friend called me”

Remembering what you already have grounds you.

It brings you back to reality and gratitude.

🌳 2. Go for a walk with no phone — just to look around

Look at the trees.

Listen to the birds.

Feel the sun or the breeze on your skin.

Every minute you breathe without pain is a gift.

Every minute you walk, someone else wishes they could.

💭 3. Ask yourself: “If this were my last afternoon, would I really care about what’s stressing me right now?”

9 out of 10 times, the answer is no.

So why give it so much power?

💬 4. Say something kind to someone — for no reason

“I was happy to see you”

“I thought of you”

“Take care of yourself”

What you give to others, returns to your soul.

Spreading love makes you more alive.

🧠 5. When you're upset… ask yourself: who would love to be in your place right now?

Someone who lost their child.

Someone going through chemotherapy.

Someone living in a war zone.

Someone without clean water.

When you realize that, you won’t just feel shame — you’ll feel awake.

And deep inside you’ll say: “Thank you.”

🔁 These small “exercises” aren’t techniques. They’re a return to being human.

Because being alive is not guaranteed.

And once you realize that — everything in life feels different.

📖 Chapter 5: Life Is a Gift, Not a Guarantee

Life owes us nothing.

It never promised to be fair, easy, or perfect.

But every day you wake up, you’re given a chance.

A second chance to see, to feel, to live.

The fact that you can breathe without tubes,

that you have a body that holds you up, and a soul that still feels,

means you’re richer than you think.

How many times have we taken for granted what others pray to have?

Health

Clean water

Food

A hand to hold

A moment to say “I love you”

In our rush to succeed, prove ourselves, or stay ahead,

we’ve lost touch with the simple beauty of just being alive.

💡 Life isn’t always beautiful — but it’s always unique

It comes with hardship.

With loss.

With injustice.

But every moment you don’t throw away — you honor.

Life doesn’t have to be “perfect.”

It just has to be conscious.

And that’s a choice you can make.

🙏 Say thank you

Not out of obligation.

But because gratitude transforms your soul.

Say thank you for being alive.

For having another chance.

For the ability to love, speak, try again.

🕊️ Final words:

Life is a gift. Not a guarantee.

Live it. Care for it. Respect it.

Because there is nothing stronger — and more fragile — than this.