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While we boast about performing complex tasks but start shivering when inflicted with a petty illness, then we really need to worry about our endurance. Our capacity to remain calm is based on our tolerance levels. An estimate of our tolerance level is gauged only during our illness.
If the pain caused by a small boil or a cut is unbearable, if a simple fever causes the temperature of the mind to remain higher than that of the body, if malaria, flu, typhoid and pneumonia which affect the body, affect the mind also, then you already have a report card of your endurance against major illness which may strike you in the future.
Even when affected by an ordinary ailment, we behave in a particular manner to gain sympathy. If anyone comes to visit us, we keep talking about our illness and keep describing our pain as if we are only waiting for the visitor to ask us "how are you doing?". Even after we are cured, we keep giving a report of the illness that we were affected with and the pain that we suffered. Just as you do not want the illness to be back in your body, is there any need to bring it back on the tongue ? It may not be possible to completely eradicate illness from our mind or body, but it is certainly within our power not to give it a seat on the swing of our tongue. In reality by continuously describing in detail and exaggerating the pain that we suffered due to our magnified illness, we are only begging for sympathy. This can be termed as a Sympathy stunt of a weak mind. During these times your tolerance levels get correctly measured !
Many are born with very low endurance levels. If someone advises them to endure they will give a spontaneous reply :
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