HEALTH COMES FIRST
Spring Waters Photo by Darius Soodmand on Unsplash Date: 30 December 2021 Time: 14:30 I sit in front of the Urologist, exhausted. The doctor ran a program on his computer after going through the pages of my test results. “I have to show you on the screen,” he said. I walked over to him with slow movements and came across an animation screen showing my internal organs. “Look, this is your right, this is your left kidney and there are 3 stones in your left kidney. In addition, two stones appear in the urinary canal. We need to clear the stones in the canal immediately…” While my doctor was saying these words, I suddenly went to the Dordogne city of France on 22 June 1580. Between 1572 and 1580, Michel de Montaigne completed the first part of his Essays and published it in 1580. The second part of the work was to be published in 1588, and the last part in 1595, 3 years after the author’s death. On June 22, 1580, Montaigne went on a journey to seek healing waters, which he...