Miracle of the water
>> Monday, June 3, 2013
LIGHT AT
THE END OF THE TUNNEL
Roger
Sinot Jr.
To
many, the hot sulfuric contents of the water rejuvenate and really delay aging.
I am not promoting a fantastic “Fountain of Youth.” Here, the place is always
at its best that everyone should take a dip as remedy for other anti-aging
medicines commercially available in this modern world.
Medicinal tablets and capsules proven by
technology to lengthen one’s life are sold worldwide but are no guarantee to a
longer life as compared to the relief that one gets from soaking in hot water
in a bathtub at Asin. The late Peppot Ilagan describes this as the “finest hot
bath in Asia.”
The
brevity and harshness of life itself has generated a number of stories and
jokes. One story goes this way:A bunch of newsmen in their research agreed to
look for at least three of the oldest living males in a certain barrio and
interview them about their secrets.
They
met an old man slowly walking down the trail with the help of a cane. The
newsmen asked: “Sir, how old are you now?” The octogenarian answered, “I am
already 80 years old.” The follow up question was, “may we know your secret how
you grew to be 80 years old?” The lolo answered, “vegetables… veggies in the
morning, veggies for lunch and supper!”
The
newsmen continued their search for and came upon a man older than the first.
They asked the same questions to which the old said, “I am 90 years old because
I have sex for breakfast, lunch and dinner!” The newsmen went on with their
search and finally found their third man with all-white hair and long white
beard too, just like a hermit. The newsmen approached and asked, “sir, may we
know your secret all these years?”
The man
that looked to be the oldest of all they interviewed quipped back, “sirs, I
drink gin in the morning, gin at lunch and gin again in the evening!” The
newsmen were surprised with his answer and asked, “sir, if that is so, may we
ask how old are you?” The man replied, “I am 29 years old!” The
research output: with vegetables, sex and gin, men grow to look very old; while
a hot bath in sulfuric Asin “guarantees” longevity.
The
words “success and successful” were commonly used to indicate big income and
financial wealth. But successful aging does not refer to prosperity although
poverty makes its attainment more difficult. Most people when asked to
distinguish between successful and unsuccessful aging think of the difference
between sickness and good health.
Despite
the lack of proven rejuvenators however, there are many ways in which older
people can recover function and decrease the risk of disease and disability.
Although perhaps the greatest anti-aging potion is good old-fashioned “clean
living.”
When
Einstein was asked to comment on the significance of the atom bomb, he said,
“sadly, it has changed everything..everything but our way of thinking,” and
went on to explain the danger of the great gap between the new reality and the
old ideas of national supremacy with war as the means to attain the latter. In
the advent of nuclear age, our way of thinking about aging has yet to catch up
with reality.
How
long and how well we live? The capacity to learn the way of life is a life-long
process. Aging is compartmentalized in periods, according to the book - age of
wish, “I wish…,” age of wisdom, age of judgment, age of education, age of work,
then age of retirement. In Asin, we have swimming pools that accommodate all
“ages.” There is the children’s pool where adults are not allowed unless
accompanied by children.
Then
there is the swimming pool for adults that sent student swimming athletes to
Palaros who gained medals and scholarships in college. Then we have rooms with
hot bathtubs that have healing wonders and where miracles still happen.
Almost
as elusive as the proverbial Fountain of Youth, the search for the ultimate
source of longevity is constant in Asin. So what are we waiting for? It is a
place we cannot live without. Happy trails everyone! – rds
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