How I Change My Life Starting With An Apple

Here’s how an apple changed my life…

In just a day of our lives, we have to make numerous decisions.
However, how often do we do so consciously?
If we do them consciously, how much improvement will we be able to bring to our lives?
My life may just be an example of how the desired change can come from a single simple conscious decision.

The Health Issues

During the time when I was a teenager, I was suffering from scoliosis, eczema & slight insomnia.
My health is in the dim.
Back then, I was visiting multiple different doctors and taking many different types of medications.
Even though I wasn’t the one paying for the medical bills and pills, it upsets me that my parents, who were working hard to support the four of us, had to pay for it.
Also, I had to wear a body brace to straighten my spine which resulted in worsening eczema and damaging my sleep.
At the same time, the medications didn’t work and, sometimes, made things worse than before.
As my physical health was not in an ideal state, it was affecting my mental health too.
It was making me feel depressed and hopeless.

However, looking back, the experiences aren’t in vain.
There is a piece of precious advice, from some of the doctors that I visited, that I still keep to heart even till today.
It was fortunate that I decided to make that small change in my life then which eventually led to a drastic shift in my health afterward.
It all started with an apple.

The Desire & Decision

When I was considering how dying may be a path to consider choosing since being alive is a nightmare, I realized the impact that I would bring to the surrounding people if I ever do so.
Also, if I were to commit suicide then, I need to choose a method that requires the least effort to clean up my corpse as cleaning up a body can be quite a hassle.
Hence, I decided that if I were to kill myself, I would wait for the people whom I hold dear to pass away first.
For that to happen, I would have to keep myself at an optimal state of well being which means being healthy & sane while not creating any issues for anyone around.
Somehow, this decision sparked my life in an unexpected direction.

Although there are many advice that doctors can give, not all of which may have been relevant to apply to my condition at that point in time.
The only advice that I took on that was effective was to have a healthy diet that has more fruits & vegetables than my usual and reduce the amount of fried & oily food that I may take.
So, I decided to have an apple at the start of each day.

The Change

Just as a caterpillar transforming into a butterfly, changes aren’t visible immediately after having one apple in a morning.
However, with a consistent effort over a period of time, changes will eventually become noticeable to the naked eye.

Fortunately, I started experiencing transformation subtly over the course of a few months after taking on the new habit.
My eczema symptoms became less and I slept better than before.
Medication is no longer needed.
As my health improved, so do my mood and mental clarity.
Every morning, even until now, I felt motivated to start my day due to the improvements that I experienced.

Til this day, I can’t help feeling grateful for the doctors’ advice.
Still, if I didn’t take it, life may have just stayed the same or became even worse than before.
Just because of this small decision to take on a new adjustment taken consciously, my life shifted towards a much beautiful place than I was before.
And it all started from an apple.