Explain the proverb and frame story using the proverb : HEALTH IS WEALTH
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HEALTH IS WEALTH
Expansion and meaning of this proverb
The proverb ‘Health is Wealth’ obviously relates to the wealth that a person can accumulate to his or her health. In other words, the phrase indicates that if one is healthy, there is a tremendous possibility if assimilating wealth through hard work and labor. But, on the other hand, if a person is not in good health, then his chances of working and amassing wealth becomes very bleak. So, the bottom line is that if you want to be wealthy you have got to stay healthy in the first place.The proverb ‘health is wealth’ is a proverb that very wisely teaches us that we can possess all the materialistic materials, money, that we desire, only when we are healthy.
Health gives you the strength to work hard and achieve everything you ever wanted. On the other hand, if you are not healthy, but weak and frail, it would be really difficult for you to work and make your dreams come true.
In other contexts, it also means that wealth has no significance at all if one is not healthy. Just imagine if you have all the wealth in the world. You can eat even the costliest food in the costliest restaurant, but your health didn’t allow you that! What a tragedy it would be. Wouldn’t at that moment you wished to forsake your wealth for your favorite food. This exactly what the phrase ‘health is wealth’ tries to teach us.
Short story on this proverb
There was a boy living in a mediocre town. He was very good at studying and always wanted to become a doctor. He was so devoted to his studies and preparations that he often skipped meals, despite the insistence of his mother to not do so.
He had to appear in a medical entrance exam one day. He was so engrossed in preparations that for almost a week before the exams, he stopped eating properly.
Though his parents were worried, he wasn’t. He thought that skipping meals will give him more time for the preparation. The day came. As usual, his mother insisted that he leave for the examination center only after breakfast. As usual, the lad brushed aside his mother’s very reasonable request and rushed to the center.
The sun was unusually hot that day and the boy took a bus for half an hour's drive. But half an hour seems too long for him to bear. Suddenly he started feeling weak a fainted on the bus.
Subsequently, he was picked up by a police van and dropped home. He also couldn’t appear for the exam he had been preparing for almost a year. He was speechless and heartbroken.
However, his parents were supportive and motivated him to try again. He was a changed boy. He studied with the same zeal but now he was also eating healthy.
He appeared in the exam, the next year and got selected. He was so happy! When he got the results, he could hear the words of his father that the latter had said after his first failure. His father had said – Remember son health is the greatest wealth that you can have.