Can you get a nosocomial infection while visiting a hospital? Possibly.
Is it better to avoid the hospital at all costs due to this? Most likely not.
When you read the news, all sorts of things get a lot of attention—plane crashes, fires, accidents.
But you are more likely to suffer from a heart issue. And heart issues are more in people’s control than some of the things that make news headlines.
I like to insist. I enjoy pushing. I am pro-„try more”.
I tend to be a Shaper on the Belbin Team Roles.
On the other hand, there’s a downside – there’s a risk of nagging others, annoying people, and not caring.
There’s also the risk that I only get to support others’ plans instead of starting things.
Good and bad, both at the same time.
Sometimes, I try to be of service, and bad things happen.
Sometimes, I try to help, and people get upset.
I don’t think I have the right not to have something negative happen to me.
Even if you try to live healthy, accidents happen.
Even if you generally perform fine, some clients will be upset.
I try not to expect that life owes me something, and I have the right to receive only good things.
Some people ask for donations on their birthdays.
The result is generally good – some NGOs get more donations.
I prefer not to do it, though.
To consider that:
#1 I’m entitled to receive something, my friends owe me something;
#2 The NGO/cause I support is of better money than what my friends would generally do with their money;
are both false, at least to me.
I don’t think I’m entitled, and if my friends prefer not to help an NGO but buy ice cream, I think that the money is well spent.
I have friends who constantly give me news on the end of the world: how to build a bunker, what nuclear powers will do, and when will the next big war start.
These friends tend to spend some time reading about things but fail to act on their readings.
They don’t move to Antarctica, they don’t build a bunker, and they don’t hide in the closet.
As I view it, you’re much more likely to have issues with stability, and you could train your body equilibrium using exercises.
Also, you’re much more likely to be affected by alcohol, bad food, and not sleeping enough, much rather than what North Korea will do next.
If all you do is read what could go wrong, but you act on nothing like this, then, in my opinion, it doesn’t help.
Sure, if you think an earthquake will come, and you are a prepper and do things, that’s fine—read about earthquakes.
But if all you do is accumulate anxiety and do nothing about it, reading about a war in another part of the world does not help.
So, how will the world end? Likely, not via a catastrophe, but by falling from a ladder because you are not exercising enough and don’t have enough dexterity. Read about practical things, not things that are out of your control/interest but give you anxiety.
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I don’t suffer from insanity; I enjoy every minute of it! – Edward Hastings Ford
When I was younger, in the people around me, people tended to be more direct and give direct feedback.
As time passed, fewer and fewer people give honest feedback.
It’s a much softer way of living.
On the other hand:
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” ― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman
One day, a gigantic fire ravages a rainforest.
Distraught, every animal turns and flees from their burning home. Passive spectators walking past the edge of the forest offer their condolences, but nothing more than a passing glance or hollow words of sympathy. After all, it’s not their home being burned.
As the sky turns grey with ash and searing flames tear through the land, one small hummingbird flits to a nearby river that is yet to be touched by the destruction. Relentlessly, the bird flies back and forth from the river to the fire, filling its beak with a tiny drop of water to toss on the leaves of a burning tree.
Noticing the tiny hummingbird’s efforts, a toucan challenges him:
“You’re crazy, Hummingbird! You’ll never be able to put out the fire on your own! Why even bother when it’s so much bigger than you?”
The hummingbird pauses.
“I know”, replies the hummingbird. “But I am doing my part.”
It’s easier to focus on other’s part. To notice their mistakes, errors, and things that are not working out for them.
But it’s much better to do your own part, to focus on yourself to fix your own errors.
You are in control of your life, you can fix your mistakes easily.
Others’ errors? Not so much.
