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  • 8/6/2019 I CAN breathe. Do not say ''I can't breathe''.

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    Dante Newton 2011

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    What do you mean that you cant breathe? Are you

    tottering on the brink of death? Are you struggling

    frantically in the dark blue stretch of sea, almost beingpushed underwater by the destructive waves? Are you

    feeling difficulty with breathing while you are sleeping in

    prison, I mean, in your stuffy room? The most prevalentheart disease is coronary heart disease. The coronary

    arteries lie on the outside of the heart and carry blood to

    the muscles in the walls of the heart.. Blood supply to the

    muscles can be greatly reduced if the coronary arteries

    become occluded. This can cause two problems: angina

    pectoris and heart attack.

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    During heart attack, blood flow to a particular part of the

    heart may be completely blocked. Due to the blocked blood

    flow, that part of the heart does not receive sufficient

    oxygen and nutrients. That region of the heart muscle dies.

    Extensive heart muscle damage is often fatal as the heart

    is no longer able to pump blood to the various parts of the

    body. Sound like portentous medical jargon? Well, inlaymans terms, it means that we are imperfect beings.

    Well, everything in this world is. From plants to dinosaurs,

    everyone is preordained to die someday. There is nofantasy of being alive for thousand of years and wholly

    immune to all kinds of pathogens. SighI lost a lot of my

    relatives and each time I heard about their demise I worryabout m life.

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    Anyone who wants to end his/her life deliberately without

    being embroiled in any disease or sickness is really

    ignominious. If you cant even take this opportunity to liveyour life to the fullest and serve the community in

    whatever means you can, I must tell you that you cant

    study, read, write, enjoy and whatever in your afterlife.This does not mean that I do not believe in afterlife, but

    this conception engenders a straitjacket where you have to

    scrimp everyday because you are filled with the thought of

    the better life after your death and you dont treasure

    your life everyday. What if afterlife was false? Will you

    regret? I dont want to talk morbidly about these matter

    but death always come indiscriminately.

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    No matter who are you, well, the inimical aged body will

    make you feeble so enough. We cant quell this from

    happening because this is natural, determined by ourCreator. Even great people like Albert Einstein and

    Bertrand Russell died.

    I dont want to talk about this anymore, but this is theway I show my plebeian emotions, that we are nothing

    special.

    And look, animals cant write nor talk. But we can. We

    can change the world. We are only blessed with developed

    brains. See the bright light there? See the pulse of life?

    Lets study hard now, get distinctions, get a degree, get

    iPads, and especially, get a happy life.

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    Fibrinogen, prothrombin, antibodies, hydrogencarbonates,

    chlorides, sulphates, phosphates, glucose, amino acids,

    urea, creatinine, insulin, corpuscles, leucocytes,erythrocytes, thrombocytes, blah blah blah. Do you think

    they are nugatory? They are actually part of you, and

    your brain chooses to ignore them. Let us close this essaywith a conclusion: Dont say you cant breathe. You are

    breathing now! But why arent you helping others and

    yourselves now when you are imbued with activeness? If

    there is a student who dont know how to solve maths

    problems, for example, you got to help him now. Yes, now.

    Not when you are old and holding on clutches!