I went to the doc today. It was all routine but I still felt like I was not going to walk out of there standing up. My off the scale thought process may be due in part because we as a society are bombarded with so much negative news. Vitamins are good, vitamins are bad, too much will cause this, the side effects of taking this medication is that it might kill you but the benefit is that you will survive long enough to see it kill you. After so much health negativism, society becomes traumatized to the point where breathing will kill me and thus I am doomed.

As we mature, and you notice I did not say get OLDER, I just don't like that word, we become more aware of our mortality. According to the news, death and disease is running amuck. And if you sit and watch the 24/7 news, you hear the same thing over and over again. I have learned to sit in front of the TV but not turn it on, like now. I have my notebook on my lap, sitting comfortably in my favorite chair, itunes playing and I am typing away. I already know what awaits me, and I don't need some news-paparazzi-television-rating-monger telling me all the different ghastly ways I may end up there.

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