Let Lives Matter

A friend recommended a book to me called “Atomic Habits" and I started reading it today.

In the first pages of the book, the author talked about how he sustained an injury in college and he was rushed to the school nurse.

After examining him, they immediately transferred him to a local hospital seeing the complexity of the matter.

The local hospital also saw that they were unequipped to solve the issue they called a helicopter to take him to a more standard hospital.

I immediately stopped reading and just started laughing.

They actually brought a helicopter ooo. Not a car or an ambulance.

It was at that point I realized that the author isn't a Nigerian.

I then realized how lives mattered to the hospitals in other parts of the world, unlike in Nigeria where the first thing they mostly do is start asking for the purchase of a card.

Cards that sadly wouldn't be needed anymore if the person is gone.

The most interesting part is the fact that the hospital didn't just transfer him to the standard hospital. They ensured they did all that was necessary to make him stable till he got there, like supplying oxygen and the likes.

This taught me to always have value for people's lives, even in my little way.

You don't need to be a doctor to save lives. Even words of affirmation and encouragement can do in some cases.

Do away with defamation and let people's lives actually matter to you.