They call it “liver” … as because of it we live …. It is an organ in our body… it takes away most of the toxins… the bad stuff … sometimes….it stops working…a failing liver doesn’t cause instant death… the person spends a good deal of his life in a state of chronic fatigue…loss of appetite…the color of the eyes and the skin become yellow ….then the patient starts bleeding…until one day everything ends…
It is not for medical purpose that I say this ….it is because I knew someone who did suffer from a serious liver problem… a long time ago… when all the today treatment options were not available… a condition that coasted him his life eventually…
but….somehow he managed to go leaving behind a legacy to cherish…and a life story to admire...despite everything he refused to surrender to the illness and to the depression…he went to rehearsals… he arranged for major performances…he trained and trained…he faced the audience who never noticed how tired he was… how thirsty he got that he always had a glass of water with him on stage… the audience that always kept asking him to repeat the parts of the song that they liked… I doubt that they had any idea about how much he was suffering… I watch him performing…I see how he smiles to the reaction of the crowd… how he smiles to his orchestra… and I say to myself… this must be the moment when he feels alive….he may not have the strongest voice… but he sure had the deepest and the strongest sense of what he was singing… I don’t feel sorry for him…. I admire him… because somehow he managed to live a lot longer than the days that counted for his age… the great :Abdel Haleem Hafiz
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