Chinese Version
04-14-2021， Wednesday，Sunny

Long time ago, I heard a story told by a nurse. I still remembered the story because it touched me at that time. The story is as follows:

“I was taking care a dying old man who wanted to eat a sandwich with onions inside in the hospital. The Hospital cafe did not serve such a sandwich at that time. The old man was lonely without any visitors, he was dying, and he was very persistent about wanting an onion sandwich. I felt very sorry for him and decided to make his wish come true. So I made a sandwich with onions inside at home for him. While eating the sandwich I made for him, he said while crying: ‘I tasted the flavor of my mother’s sandwich, I remembered the love from my mother.’ He thanked me for making him the onion sandwich … The magic happened, the dying lonely old man slowly recovered and was released from the hospital later.”

The nurse concluded: “Feeling loved creates magic.”

I wondered about if this story is really a true story for a long time now. Recently, I asked a scientist who studied medicine this question: “Could this story be really?”

After listening to the story, the scientist thought a bit and said slowly: “This story could be true. If the patient is like a cancer patient. Because feeling loved comes from the brain, and brain will pass this feeling to the body. This feeling inside the body could boost the body’s immune system and kill the cancel cells more effectively.”

I was very happy to hear this explanation.

It sounds like learning to love and learning to feel loved will improve our mental and physical health.