I lost quite a bit of weight in the last year. It was on purpose. I started by tracking my intake and monitoring food choices. Before I knew it, the pounds melted away. I dropped two pant sizes and had to completely flip my wardrobe. My body was transformed.
Strangely, it didn't always feel that way.
After losing twenty five pounds, I looked in the mirror one morning after getting out of the shower. I couldn't discern a bit of difference. I could see the same layers of skin and love handles as before. Although my outsides had changed drastically, my brain was stuck in its former state. My internal version of myself was so deeply ingrained that I couldn't recognize that which was so obvious to my family and friends.
Sometimes I think I resist external change not only out of fear, but also because I am a creature of habit. My brain often deceives me.
I now know cataclysmic change is upon us.
Unfortunately, it is exceedingly tempting to look into the mirror, as I have done many times, and convince myself that reality is as it was before.
I think this is dangerous. I also think it is dangerous to consider the fact that we elected a buffoon as president the main problem.
The problem is that half the electorate felt so disenfranchised and desperate that they would knowingly elect a buffoon because they thought they had no other tenable option.
And yet, as I look back at the last eight years, I am filled with such optimism and hope. I am so proud.
Or is that my brain again, tricking me into seeing a reality that no longer exists?
Maybe a reality, that for some, never existed.
1 comment:
I think that you should have hope that things will improve for doctors. If I were you, I would call your three Congress people and have all your doctor friends and other friends call their Congress people.
I would suggest there might be some worthwhile changes made to Obamacare that weren't possible while a Democrat was the President. The idea was that the D's built all by themselves and the people would have to live it the way it is. Now, I would think that the D's and R's might have reasons to cooperate, the D's because they built it and the R's because essentially as of January 20, they own it.
Just maybe they will reduce the EHR requirements and increase the pay for family doctors. That is what I am asking my Congresspeople to do.
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