Go for a health check-up and get Reebok shoes for free

My “eat like a lion, drink like a fish and smoke like a chimney” life seems to have hit rough waters. Well, it was just today that my HR manager poked a form and said, “Please get your health check-up done…the doctor’s downstairs.” For the last few days I dreaded that I would be cornered as the management arranged for a free health-check for all. When it comes to meeting the doctor, the word FREE doesn’t seem too enticing. But today I was singled out and had to meet her (the doc), the day when I was dressed in my tees I wear at home and socks torn in the corners.

For my weight I displayed my tattered socks and I offered my left arm for my BP – 164/ 99 it read! But no one’s checking my pulse…well then didin’t have the stethoscope to do so and I knew the results way before the machine pronounced.

Now I need to tell her all I do, what I eat etc. etc….all done and the sentence. Well Rs 3360 worth tests to be conducted the following day…good going. And my Weekend drink…well she didn’t seem to care. My very existence revolved around rice and it was off the diet chart…For God’s sake I’m an Assamese. I grew eating rice for breakfast, lunch and dinner!

Never mind…but with hypertension written in my diagnostics card, I’m not feeling too well now. And the fact that I have to shell out Rs 3360 now makes me sad even more.

I have now to make decisions; decisions that will change the course of my life. It’s the end of the month and I have very limited resources in my bank account. I had seen a pair of shoes in the Rebook showroom near my place but could take because they didn’t have my size. Just yesterday the salesman called me to inform that my size for the pair had just come. I have to choose between the two – go for the tests or buy the pair of shoes.

As for my diet, whatever comes of the tests, I will probably follow the diet chart for a couple of weeks and go back to eating rice and non-veg, while the pair of shoes will remain with me for the next couple of months.

While I have a couple of hours to decline one, I still feel the later option seems better (to go for the shoes)…let’s see. I wish they could have had some scheme like “Go for a health check-up and get Rebook shoes for free.” This could have solved the entire problem.

Now my Funda of life is: The first impression of a person is made on the shoes he wears and not on the diseases he is afflicted with…agreed?