Rude Awakenings

Rude Awakenings

Why is it there's such a thing as 'rude awakenings' ? It's because we never expected such 'rude awakenings'  in life.  We never expected 'rude awakenings'  to even knock us off.  Lastly, we were never prepared for those sporadic 'rude awakenings'  in our life.  As a parallellism, 'rude awakenings' are akin to natural disasters caused by hurricanes, typhoons, tsunamis and earthquakes.  While we do know that any of those cataclysmic events will hit us hard one day, we just left things to fate, to destiny and more often, we left it to our respective governments to mobilize the disaster preparedness programs.

And that's the thing.  What compounds and worsens our dilemma is that with our very little or almost nil expectations of surprises springing up in our lives, we tend to set the bar so high when we are brimming much with a positive and optimistic outlook of things to come.  We seem to ready up our mindset of the best results, the best scenarios, the best outcomes only to end up as huge letdowns when results finally trickle in.  Such is our mistake that repeats itself over and over again.

Thing is, we are so caught up in our daily lives such that what catches our attention [and priority] are the basic routines happening day-in day-out like in this pandemic, we may be locked down within the confines of our homes but we've scheduled the next trip to the grocery, to the bakeshop, and even to the wet market.  Did we prepare ourselves if one of our immediate family members gets into a difficult medical situation ?  Did we prepare ourselves suddenly feeling penniless because the huge savings we amassed through the years suddenly dissipated in thin air, all because something unfortunate happened.

When and where are we hardest hit ?  Yes you're right, we're hard hit when we had to endure those difficult surprises in life.  Question is, how do we respond to such surprises ?  Its spelled as P-R-E-P-A-R-E-D because there's no other way.  By being prepared for a very remote probability, by bracing ourselves for the inevitable, we will be softening the difficulty of such surprises, that's all there is to it.

Those scenarios we dread, like the sudden passing of our loved one, the sudden illness a family member has to struggle with, the sudden financial hit we had to endure very severely, these are inevitabilities.  But it's never taboo to be prepared for such unknown variables in life.  Health insurance has been there for our picking every since. Hospitalization coverages were hitherto unknowns till of late.  Obviously there are a lot more that's force majeure but again, we just gotta be prepared, $$$ and otherwise. ❗