Health is HAPPINESS - 1

I was listening to our professor’s lecture on Gestalt theory in our educational psychology class when my seatmate asked me, “What makes you happy?”

The Gestalt (“form”) psychology came from Germany and was identified most closely with Max Wertheimer who theorizes that, “The whole is different or greater than the sum of its parts.”

Turning back to my classmate, I said, “When I wake up in the morning feeling whole and I look at the mirror and know that am indeed whole, then I am happy. What happiness could be greater than being healthy?”

As soon as the bell rang, she tagged along and said, “May I interview you further next time about your answer to my question earlier?” I said “no problem but I kind of felt she was not convinced with the truthfulness of my answer—“that I am happy because I am healthy.”

I believe one of the things that people often forget to value is their health when in fact this must be counted as the greatest health one can possess. Come to think of it, when we get seriously ill now, there’s nothing else we can do—we cannot be happy when all we can feel is pain and emptiness.

The irony is that many people even neglect their health by going into drugs, smoking, alcoholism, not eating and not working properly, abusing their bodies in different ways.