The First Step to Modify and Change Life for Betterment is Graciously, Responsibly, and Courageously to Realize, Understand, and Accept the Available Truth and Facts of life
by James Chin-Ti Lin, M.D. , board-certified urologist, award-winning author, public speake, copywriterFollowing the intention as stated in the title, my almost 70-year personal and 45-year professional life experience has spoken to and inspired me to collect, analyze, and compile what I have seen and discerned the world as a list of my vision on what life is like to share with all people in the world before my permanent life departure.
The following is what I have thus far come up with for you:
Part I: Basic Facts of Life
1. A life is created to look nicer, feel better, and live longer; it is a serious tough business.2. Life is a process of constant struggle to copy with reality, certainty, and uncertainty of daily living.
3. life is a one-way street of accumulation, modification, and continuation from inception to eternity.
4. And you are the accumulation of your own past including how the way you were born, raised, educated,
have lived and experienced over lifetime. So, what and who you are not only represents what and who you
have been but also makes what you will be.
5. For life management, please act to do something sensible and meaningful for the present and future now;
do not waste your time and energy to dwell on the past; it is never too late to do something effectively
leading to self-preservation; the key to longevity.
6. Nothing lasts forever except time, space, and potentially, religious eternal life.
7. There is no magic in life and medicine. If any, that is, how we can work together and apply currently
available knowledge, skills, technology, medication, commonsense, and wisdom at a reasonable time, in
a reasonable way; then we hope the possible best and have to move along.
8. Medical professionals have never really cured anyone yet, but all what they can do is to apply medication,
surgery, and lifestyle modification from inside out and outside in to provide our body with the best
possible inside and outside environments to undergo its best possible self-healing process for optimal
functional recovery of the impaired organs, but probably never back to their original state.
9. Anything happens to you along the path of life will stay with you forever. And self-preservation is the
key to longevity. Everything happens to you spiritually and physically will surely leave its mark on the
path of your life; it will sooner or later reflect somewhere sometime down the path of your life. Therefore,
always be aware of what everything you do now.
10. We tend to hear only what you like, love, and want, not what you need selectively.
11. A disease is always a process of FULL SPECTRUM, ranging from its early subdue elusive stage to its
late easily recognizable full-blown picture.
12. A disease is the ending result of lifelong interaction between your internal (genetic, hereditary) factors
and external (environmental, acquired) factors.
13. A disease is the SAYING from your body, "Enough. That is enough." to you. Please always graciously
realize, accept, and respect the fact and truth of life and take personal responsibility; there is no one else
to blame but yourself.
14. The causes of a disease always consist of two aspects (layers):
a. Underlying causes: the accumulation of ill effects from inevitable aging process and controllable
lifestyle.
b. Precipitating causes: accidents, surgery, medication, pain, positioning, anxiety, etc.
15. For general health maintenance, we should adopt the spirit and practice of car ownership with timely
love-tender service and care for ourselves every single day and every single moment. We are the owner
of our own body; we need to be constantly gracious, respectful, and loyal in providing direct spiritual
and physical self-service - healthy lifestyle to our body but, remember, not at expense of someone's
pain, suffering, and loss.
16. Our body has a tremendous self-healing power; it is processing this job all the time. To keep up this
wonderful function at its best, we need to always maintain an optimal state of mental and physical
health through the effort of self-care to self-preservation - healthy lifestyle or the key to longevity.
17. The best possible medical care results from the joint effort of you with self-care leading to
self-preservation and medical professionals with complementary timely attention.
18. Behind what we know always still hides a lot of what we don't know; be humble and not over-exult.
