In This High Inflation Period, I Choose to Double Down on the Best Investment Anyone Could Have: Health

Health is the best investment anyone can ever make, irrespective of time.

TzeS
3 min readJun 2, 2022
Photo by Victor Freitas

The Past

Health is the best investment anyone can ever make. That is the first life lesson I’ve received from the CEO of the first company I worked for fresh out of college. Being young and brash, naive and ignorant and everything little thing in between that you would associate with that stage of life don’t stop me from agreeing with him at that time but it certainly stop me from doing something about it. I’m more conscious of sitting in his Mercedes, chauffeured by his PA at that time. A moment of many firsts for me. That was more than a decade ago.

Thinking back, I’ve been neglecting my health for years. In my senior year in college, I had to chase after a bus for reasons that have escaped my mind now. I never had to. Like any college-goer, I didn't care if I’m late for lectures but I have reason to chase after a bus that day. I had to. There is no other reason to do that except to have a reason (pun intended). A few steps into my stride, I had that oh sh*t moment. Oh yes, that moment, when you realize that you are not what you use to be. A few seconds into the act and I was regretting my…

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TzeS

I write simple, easy to relate to, positive articles about life. Proceeds will be channeled to kiva.org to change others’ life