What To Do

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Image result for i used to be indecisive but now i'm not so sureA few days ago I went to lunch with several family members at a burger place. One of them is just two years old. He’s a good kid and I enjoy watching him develop with each stage. While we were all eating he accidentally dropped his grilled cheese sandwich on the floor. It was only on the floor for a couple of seconds before his mother picked it up. She looked at it, brushed it off with a napkin, and gave it back to him. No biggie, right? The thing is that this is the same mom who once behaved as though every germ in the universe was directly targeting her son. She was always extremely careful about her son’s contact with things such as adults, children, various locations, hand-held items, and the entire earth’s atmosphere in general. I have no proof, but I think that hand sanitizer might have been purchased by the 55 gallon drum. Anyway, I found it humorous to see her treating that sandwich like a regular item in life instead of a deathtrap for her kid. It’s funny to me how time mellows us all as parents.

I’ve been having a strange time mellowing out lately regarding my body. If things were more intense at any level, I would think that I was experiencing mood swings. There are days when I don’t think about my injuries much at all, but there are also days in which I consider going to see someone about the things that have been troubling me physically. My problem centers on the fact that at times things hurt to the point of being a hindrance to my daily function in one way or another. I just don’t want to actually pull the trigger on calling a doctor’s office in order to get things checked out. In any case I keep going on day after day without really doing much about it at all. The problem is that I can’t tell if I’m being a practical individual who is allowing his life to progress, or a guy so tired of dealing with the medical profession that he’ll just disregard every symptom in order to make life simpler. Should I use the hand sanitizer, brush off the sandwich, or something in-between? I really don’t know.


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