Taking care of ourselves

I once heard of this story about two men who were supposed to balance themselves on the rope or something of that sort. The story goes that the first man who is on the rope will carry the second other man (I assume on his shoulders). The second man is supposed to balance himself on the first man's shoulders. When the first man told the second man not to worry, the first man will take care of the second man, the second man said no. Instead, he said, "Brother, you will take care of yourself to balance yourself on the rope, and I will take care of myself to balance myself on your shoulders. In that way, we will both take care of each other".

It was a wonderful message, I may not have remembered the story accurately, but the message was beautiful. Well, this week, a lot of people have been infected by some kind of flu virus, including my dad and my colleagues. My dad is never in favour of going to see the doctor, and he has not been well for a few days. Finally it got to me, one day before the paintball event organized by my company. Even my mum caught the virus. Same goes to my colleague, she also has the flu but she still goes to work, guess that's my second source of flu virus.

I did the same thing twice before, because I badly wanted to attend some event, I just ignored my own sickness. In the end I infected one other person (to my knowledge).

After this, I'll need to tell myself to put myself first before other people/events. If not, I will end up being the cause of other's misfortune because I cannot take care of other people if I am not taken care of myself.

I suppose companies must strongly take note of this, when a person is sick, let that person be on medical leave because you do not want him/her to go to the office and infect other people!

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