Samaira Bangatufts university, Tufts University · startups and sidequests

Can RELATIONSHIPS Affect Your Health?

19 Mar 2024 · 1 min

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In this brief monologue, the speaker argues that carrying unresolved or strained relationships functions like an unseen, continuously running fan in an unused room of a house, incurring an ongoing electricity bill. The metaphor illustrates how we unknowingly pay a health cost for these lingering relational tensions. The speaker emphasizes that emotional and physical health are tightly interwoven, and that neglecting to address strained relationships can detrimentally impact overall well‑being.

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If we are carrying lot of unresolved relationships, those relationships which have been strained many, many years ago, then somewhere we are still paying the bill for those relationships. How? It's like imagine there's a house. In the top room of that house, on the terrace, there's a small little room, and in that room there's a fan which is running and running and running. You never go to that room, but there is a fan there. which is running, will you have to pay the electricity bill for it or not? Yes. You will have to, right? Same way, if we have a strained relationship with a friend, a family member, anyone in our lives, we are paying the bill for it even without knowing it. And what's the bill in this case? Our health. It's not like emotional health and physical health are disconnected. No, our emotional health and our physical health are very closely connected. One without the other cannot give us ultimate health.