[종교칼럼] There is nothing for granted in this world

[종교칼럼] There is nothing for granted in this world

Bride Jae-geun Lee

Seven years ago, I had panic disorder. Panic symptoms first appeared when I was playing badminton with my acquaintances during training in China. Suddenly, it was difficult to breathe with chest pain.

My head was dizzy and I felt like I was about to lose consciousness at any moment. It was a pain and a pain she had never felt in her life. She thought it was a heart attack. She thought he was going to die like this.

The first thing that came to mind was my parents. Because I lived happily ever after, I wanted to tell you not to be sad even if I die. However, he could not leave a will because all of his acquaintances were Chinese. It was sad and frustrating. Then an ambulance arrived.

Several tests were performed at the hospital, and the results were normal. I returned home with a happy heart, thinking ‘it must have been because I was overworked’, but the next day I collapsed again with the same symptoms. He came to Korea in a hurry, got all the tests he could do, and the hospital diagnosed him with panic disorder.

The biggest characteristic of panic disorder is that all of the daily activities that you normally do not take for granted are not taken for granted. Everyday life, including getting up in the morning, eating, sitting at a desk, going out, and meeting friends becomes impossible. The reason for this is that you don’t know when and under what circumstances you will experience panic symptoms.

Panic symptoms usually last about 20 minutes, peak and then slowly disappear. There is nothing I can do during that time. You just have to call an ambulance or do nothing and weep.

If these symptoms happen once or twice in your life, you’re fine. However, in patients with panic disorder, these symptoms occur several times a day. When you don’t have symptoms, you spend time worrying about when symptoms might appear.

Now that I have been cured, I have a realization. It is the fact that ‘there is nothing for granted in this world’. It was because I was able to realize how grateful and grateful for all the things I took for granted and enjoyed.

When I was giving a lecture to students at university, I once asked them about their dreams. Everyone answered ‘happiness’. Of course, each of them had different wishes for happiness, but ultimately they wanted happiness.

While searching for happiness, I came across an article that said, ‘The opposite of happiness is not unhappiness, but dissatisfaction.’ Dissatisfaction is an emotion that arises when you take something for granted. Therefore, the best way to get rid of dissatisfaction, or the best way to be happy, is to take everything for granted and not take it for granted.

In the future, I would like to share with my readers about happiness. In these days, when people are shunned unless it is a provocative article, I want to share a very ordinary, sometimes warm, and laughable article among them. I think that’s why I live as a Catholic priest, and it’s a way to show my readers the God I believe in, even a little.

First of all, I will write the stories while living happily so that they can bring a little comfort and small happiness to the hearts of tired and struggling readers.