Almost fainted.....

I always think of myself as a strong woman because I seldom feel sick and take leaves from work. I firmly believe in this until someday, near the end of February, one thing happened to me.

One morning, a phone call woke me up when I was sound asleep. A friend of mine invited me to go mountain climbing with her. Well, it would be embarrassing and impolite to refuse the friendly invitation from my dear friend though the call really interrupted my beauty sleep. Thirty minutes later, the car appeared in front of my house with my dear friend inside happily waving her hands to me. I was ready to go without any breakfast. I thought the mountain climbing this time would be the same as the other time we had together, that is, just "hike" the flat mountain for about one hour and then have a wonderful breakfast together along with some dessert. However, I was totally wrong.......

When I got in the car, my dear friend told me that some of her friends were driving to the mountain, too, and they would meet there and climb together. At first I thought her friends would climb the same trail as we did before. However, they chose a totally different trail, the one that I climbed several year ago and it's a very steep and long way.

The trail started from a long walk. Ten minutes later, we started to climb the stair all the way up the mountain. Seeing the stair, my heart began to cry and panic. In the past, I used to climb the stairs up the mountain with my family. However, I couldn't finish climbing all the stairs because my heart and breath couldn't bear the the long way. My face paled with my mind blanking. I was too weak to speak a word. Luckily my parents saw my face and we took a long rest. Since then, I felt afraid of climbing stairs. Thus, a few years later, when I stood there seeing my dear friend start climbing the stair to look for her friends who were climbing ahead of us thirty minutes ago, I couldn't give up going with them and stay there waiting for them. So I kept going and something that happened before happened again. I found myself unable to breathe steadily, nor could my heart beat regularly. What's worse, I was losing my temperature. I felt cold from my head to toes, and I couldn't speak a word, either.

Luckily, my dear friend found her friends on the way up the mountain. She stopped and greeted her friends. Then, she noticed something's wrong with me, and they all helped me sit down and rest for a while. It was so embarrassing for me to behave like that in front of the strangers though they are all female. There were even other strangers who gave me their food when they saw me pale and faint. It took us more than two hours to walk out of the mountain and get to our "sweet cars". However, before that, I needed to take a rest twice while we were still on the top of the mountain. How embarrassing! How weak I was! Moreover, during the following week, I found myself weak in doing everything, including having class, reading, and even doing house work. It was a really terrible week and because of this, I realize the importance of resting. Enough sleep and healthy food will be my golden rules for the rest of my life in case another similar thing happens again.


21:46 March 02, 2006.