Hi there. It’s 6.23am on a Sunday morning, and here I am posting this entry. Don’t get me wrong, I would gladly jump back to bed and close these pair of tired eyes of mine, after sleeping at 2am yesterday thanks to the university assignments (we’ve all been there), but alas, I’ve got Sunday religious classes to go to, and thus to get the brain exercised, I ask this question: “What get’s you up in the morning?”
Really now, what get’s you up? Is it the natural progression of getting up without that noisy alarm, hence telling yourself that you’ve justfully had enough sleep? On the contrary, do you set alarms everyday, and make it a point to wake up during a certain time, even though you can choose not to?
Do you wake up wishing you could sleep back? Or do you wake up and feel appreciative that you have woken up, and that you make it a point to make that particular day, even though it is a Sunday morning and that you have to be one of the minority few on this day when all should deserve their rest to do, well, something different? Something not ordinary?
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not trying to create a big farce about appreciating your mornings. We all know we should. But why? I leave you with this, as a possible reason:
following excerpt from http://health.asiaone.com.sg/mensmatter/20061125_001.html
Is there more to sudden deaths than we know?
By Eng Chee Koon – Nov 25, 2006
AsiaOne
| Five inexplicable deaths in three weeks. And the victims were all young men in the prime of their lives.While questions are being asked on what could have triggered these deaths, the victims’ loved ones mourn and try to cope with the loss.In Singapore, sudden deaths are not new. This phenomenon first hit the headlines during the 1980s when a number of Thai migrant workers mysteriously died in their sleep.According to findings published in the International Journal of Epidemiology in 1992, there were 235 cases of sudden unexpected death syndrome (SUDS) among apparently healthy Thai male migrant workers between 1982 and 1990.Then, as now, medical experts were stumped as post-mortem studies yielded inconclusive results on the root cause of SUDS. However, the 1992 study noted that the victims had “anomalies in the cardiac conduction system.”Nonetheless, the recent deaths – the latest case being that of a 35-year-old Singaporean businessman working in Xiamen, China – have raised concerns that more in-depth studies should be carried out to investigate if there is an underlying trend emerging.
A concerned reader, Mr Kris Kong, 50, asked in an email to AsiaOne: “I am wondering how come no in-depth investigations are carried out.” When contacted, he said it was disturbing to him that young men who are otherwise fit and healthy can drop dead so suddenly. He added that this should be reason enough for the health authorities to carry out research into the matter. |
It doesn’t matter what get’s you up. For whatever your reason, be thankful that you are up.
