Reason of Existence

I'm back!! Back from where u might ask? Back from my Education Trip. Went to places like Half Way Home, Penang Hospital, BOLD and Hospital Bahagia

Well, Half Way Home is a place where rehabilitation takes place for people who have just came out of Hospital Bahagia. They were given things to do so as to improve their Daily Life Activities (DLA). So why do people in Half Way home need rehab? It's because Hospital Bahagia is an asylum for mental patients. So after they are treated, they need to be rehab before being sent home. That's what Half Way home is for.

Albeit the stigma of almost everyone regarding the 'mental hospital', Hospital Bahagia is actually a very nice place. I would say it's AWESOME. Very peaceful and surely, the place is HUGE. This is where patients who have mental illness are treated. We were given the opportunity to visit the wards and it was a great experience.

As I was walking around visiting the wards (we were taken to the females ward), I started to think. What is their existence here on earth? I strongly believe that everyone exist here on Earth for a reason, whatever the reason might be. So what is theirs? One of my friend told me how pity they were and basically how 'cham' (miserable or sad) their lives are. But I look at it a different way. Sad of course their lives are, but I guess they are there for a reason.

So what might be some of the reasons be?Maybe they are there to give the nurses lessons. I mean life lessons such as building up patience and working gently with people. Maybe they are there so as to help doctors to better understand the problem so that other people who are having the same problem could be addressed more effectively. Or maybe it could just simply be to give us (us meaning the normal population) an insight of how blessed we are. Count your blessings!!

These patients there, some have lived over 50 years in there. And any one of them can simply put youngsters to shame. We always whine about how hard our lifes are, how unfair we are treated, what we are lacking, how life could be better "if .....", and youngsters give up their life so easily by commiting suicide. These people here have mental illness and yet they survived. They struggle with their lives so hard everyday, and here, we the "normal population" whine about how miserable our lives are.

In conclusion (whoah.. sounds like an essay right? XD), 2 things can be learnt from here:

1. What is your Reason(s) of Existance (RoE)?
2. Count your blessings. You would see that life is not that bad, and after you have found your reason of existance, life would be MEANINGFUL.

God Bless~