My long-awaited healing

        Yesterday I had a CT scan of my lower back and a biopsy of my right sacrum. 
      I stayed overnight in hospital. I fell asleep early and woke up at 4 in the morning; I listened to the radio: the news and then a programme where they tell a fictional story and the listeners have to work out what happened, for example, whether there’s been a murder.
      Then I started thinking, because the news said there were only a few hours left before the deadline, set by the US for Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz, was due to expire; but it said the US was going to extend the deadline until Wednesday. And that made me think about the idea of giving a second chance in life.
      In this case, it seems the US is willing to give Iran a second chance.
      We all want peace, and that is why the world deserves a second chance.

      On that programme, a psychologist spoke about memory and its connection to music.
      It’s interesting that, as she said, we’re better able to remember a song than anything else, because music has rhythm and our brain reacts and anticipates the memory when it hears a few bars that it has heard before.
      That is why people with Alzheimer’s react positively when they hear songs from their youth, because the music stimulates their emotions and thus triggers their memory.
      That made me think, once again, that music gives these people a second chance to be happy, at least for a little while.

         Another thing the psychologist mentioned was also very interesting: there is a study which has shown that babies, before they are born, are able to respond to the stimulation of music and then remember it after they are born, and react positively when they hear that music again. A mother discovered this when her son was born and she noticed that he relaxed when she played a TV series she used to watch before her baby was born. It seems the baby had been listening to the music before he was born. 

      In this case, the baby has a second chance to listen to pleasant music that relaxes him.

      I believe it is very important that we can have a second chance in life.