It's time for another "Motivational Monday", along with this week's challenge: For every beverage you drink other than water, drink two glasses of water.
A few weeks ago, I had the unfortunate experience of reaching severe dehydration, to the point where I was taken to hospital and given fluids through IV. It will probably make me sound idiotic when I say that I never thought dehydration would be that bad. I am here to tell you that it's bad. It hurts. It hurts in ways I didn't expect. It drained my whole body of energy and made me nauseated and awful. It certainly was a wake up call. I need to drink more water. I live in one of the few places on earth with clean tap water that actually tastes good. That's right. I have easy access to delicious, safe water, and I still am not drinking enough. I used to be really good about it. My friend would sometimes tease me whenever I'd say I was thirsty, declaring that I always was thirsty. I was getting beyond 8 glasses a day, and it was great. For some reason though, this winter, I was so cold for most of the day, that I never really wanted to add to the chill by drinking cold water. Sometimes I would put warm water in my cup; I am such a wuss. I went to drinking coffee, or, some days, a glass of water. One glass. Not even a whole one. A few sips, maybe. That's not good for anyone. So, starting this week, I have a challenge for not only myself, but also those who have similar problems that I do, to drink at least two glasses of pure water for every non-water beverage I have. This is in addition to whatever water I would also be having. It is day one, and I've had one glass of water. Working on my second. I want to have some coffee, so I'd better get a move on. One day I will work my way back up to eight cups a day, but until then, this is my goal.
The dehydration incident also opened my eyes to the water crisis felt around the world. I hate taking things for granted, and here I've been doing just that. Not only that, but I haven't kept on the world news. I know clean water seems to be lacking just about everywhere, but what can I do? Personally, in a group, whatever. A group of close friends and I pooled our money together and were able to donate a fairly large sum to an organization that builds wells. Since then, I haven't really done anything like that. I want to do more. If any of you know of a good, Canadian, or at least international, preferably Christian, organization that helps with providing clean water for people without, please, I beg of you, comment or contact me directly, as this is very important to me. I've heard a little about "The Thirst Project", but don't know much. If you have links you could share, that would also be helpful.
No person should ever have to go without water. Take this challenge with me, pray for those who don't have what we do, and do your own research to find out how you can help out where you are.
I love you guys! Drink up!
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