Why you have to take the little things seriously

I got an email yesterday from a smart and reflective Liberian friend. Below is an excerpt from the email that I thought was insightful and scary.

Overall, I am often healthy. I am just a scare guy who likes to take little things serious. In a country like ours where there is no efficient health services one has to take any little bad feeling serious. Because if it gets serious, the doctors would say they can’t find the cause of your illness. And where you don’t have money to travel abroad for advanced treatment, it leads to something serious. And then people would say that you have been bewitched.