FALCULTY OF FILM, THEATRE AND ANIMATION (FITA)

UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MARA (UiTM)

COURSE CODE:

FWC421: LIFE WRITING

LECTURER:

Dr. Sanghamitra Dalal

TITLE OF ASSIGNMENT:

Personal Statement: My Health Condition

(Individual Assignment 1)

STUDENT NAME:

Nur Syazwani Binti Abdul Latif

STUDENT ID:

2018261714

PROGRAM/GROUP:

FF239 / ELE_FWC421

DATE OF SUBMISSION:

26 March 2019
 Personal Statement – My Health Condition

I am glad to be forced by my mother to take a look at my personal health and to

develop a plan for my future. For the last few years it has been a subject I chose to ignore.
Faced with this task and the desire to do well on it, I am forced to take a hard look at myself
and decide the next steps.

Before this, I was tall and thin and on the outside all evidence pointed to a much
healthier version of me. I was thin, I exercised 3 or 4 times a week and did everything I knew
to do to maintain my weight and keep my physical body in good shape. There are times I
look at myself in a photo and I barely recognize that person from 10 years ago.

3 years ago, I was depressed because I got a lot of criticism from the crowd that said I
was gorgeous and not beautiful. So I decided to take weight supplement pills. After almost a
month I used the supplement, I decided to stop because many articles about the danger of
taking such extra drugs like a supplement. However, doing drugs can cause problems like
heart cancer and skin cancer. Doing this to me is a very bad thing that can cause to permanently
injure myself especially in this young age.

Today I am not thin, I am lucky to get to the gym once a month and from the outside
it would appear that I have much room for improvement. Interestingly today I feel healthier at
the age of 25 than I did at teen age. Back then, my outward appearance might have shown a
healthy, trim and tan young girl, but inwardly I was quite the opposite. I was a little bit
chubby, I was stressed to the max I had a very poor diet and even though I did not look it, I
was a mess.

Now, I am 20 kilogram heavier than I was in my teen age. I do not appear nearly as
healthy as I did back then, at least outwardly, but I feel healthier than ever before. I have
learned to manage stress with yoga and meditation, I am careful about what I eat and very
aware of the importance of health. Inwardly I am a bill of health.

Through my research two issues I decided I want to improve upon are losing weight
and incorporating physical exercise into my life. Using the methods in the plan that I have
developed, I hope to bridge my outward self with my inward self and bring about a profound
change in my life to improve your body and mind without the spirit coming along too. I feel
as though I am spiritualty fit, I have purpose and I live in a state of gratitude and optimism as
much as possible but I am excited to see how much better it can be once I reach my goals.
 So I turned to the internet, more specifically Youtube, it became my saving grace,
unbeknownst to me at the time there was a large fitness community waiting for me behind my
Youtube search bar, ready to provide anyone who looks with large amounts of information on
Fitness and training, healthy eating and dieting and a major source of positive motivation to
help get anyone started.

Onto my physical health as a whole this dimension plays a huge rule in my wellness. I
find my body to be very healthy. I am very active I love to exercise and eat right, and get
enough sleep. I find my physical health to be very important to keep myself in proper shape.
Physical wellness relates to my life by making smart and healthy choices each day. Making
sure to get check-ups on my health is critical as I am getting older.

Intellectual health is the willingness to take on new ideas and challenges. I am a

person who can easily recognize problems quickly, and think fast to come up with a way to
solve the problem. I have gained much knowledge on this dimension of my health.
Continually learning new things is something I enjoy to do and will continue on with my
learning. I plan to get a Masters degree someday. Keeping my brain always learning and
thinking will help keep me on a good path with my intellectual health.

As I stated earlier, outwardly I need some work and I am the only one who can do it. I
am spiritually fit and grateful that I can see the good in most situations and maintain a
positive outlook on life. Going back to school is a major hurdle for me, I started 2 years ago
and I feel that I need to finish it. My attitude and my feelings about my self-worth improved
when I returned to school and, although I have less time for my activities, I feel good about
my decisions. I know that in the end that I am going to be a smarter, more physically fit being
and I am taking the steps needed to get there.

Mahatma Gandhi said “It is health that is real wealth not pieces of gold and silver”.
So many people today are just focused on what we tangibly have, material things. When in
reality what is the most important is our physical, emotional, and social health. As I can say
that, don’t care about what others said and just do whatever you want but importantly your
health care is must be balance with your lifestyle. The final dimension occupational health is
explained by your relationship with your work. I have a great relationship with my job I
enjoy what I do. I even get to train people how to do my job. I have plenty of room to
advance with this job to move up the ladder. I intend to do so I am now training in other
positions to move up. I have great relationships with my co-workers and managers.
 Occupational health I am satisfied in and will keep working hard in my career
field. Overall al seven dimensions play a very vital role in my life. They makeup who I am,
and how I deal with them all differently. I have my strengths and my weaknesses. I am proud
of them this means I am human. I am not perfect these dimensions show how wellness relates
to my life and I am pleased with my results.