Wednesday 7/31/24
I saw a stat some time ago that 70% of children brush their teeth for less than two minutes.
I'm going to say that virtually no children brush their teeth for two minutes--the recommended amount of time--and hardly any adults.
Stand there sometime and brush your teeth for two minutes. I actually do this, because I knew the advised amount of time and I drink a lot of tea, which means I use the microwave a regularly. I put two mugs of water in the microwave each morning, enter time cook for five minutes, and then I brush my teeth and don't stop until there's under three minutes left.
It feels like a long time to be brushing your teeth.
I wonder if shots have changed over the years or it's just that they change psychologically. When you get a shot as an adult, you can barely feel it. It's not even a prick, really--you hardly know anything was done.
But we have these memories from being a kid as shots as these things that hurt quite a bit. Did they actually? I'm unsure. Things do change, of course. What was painful once in medicine is not painful later. Shots are scary as a kid. The setting is a big part of it. The implements of the doctor's office. Things you didn't see anywhere else, unless you had a toy doctor's kit, and even if you did, that was so very different.
When people talk about voting, and going out and voting, and how important it is to vote, the implication--or what they're trying to pass off as their implication--is that they're encouraging everyone to exercise their rights and partake of the democratic process, but what they really mean is, "You better vote the way I want you to or goddamn you to hell."
As we've seen again and again, people love to talk about how old they are, and will do so at any age and, often, as early as they can. This is because they want to tap out of life and wish to have an excuse to do so. People essentially brag about being old, because that grants them greater access to excuses.
There are several things in this life that people want more than anything else, and those things, ironically, tend to be horrible for them.
They want attention, for instance--in our current world--more than they want connection or to be loved. And they want excuses more than almost anything, too, including having to try, because trying can result in failing, and people are now too weak to fail and carry on; either by finding another way with what they were trying to do, or finding something else. They're not strong enough.
The other day I saw something typical: Someone posted a photo on social media of Captain Kangaroo. They wrote, "If you remember who this is, your joints ache in the morning."
Was it wrong that I thought, "Run some stairs, Beefy"?
I guess it may have been wrong. It seemed reasonable, though. I remember Captain Kangaroo. I liked that guy. He enlivened many a'morning for me. (I also enjoyed repeats of the Adam West Batman show before heading to school, circa first grade.) And my joints don't ache in the morning.
So, what, then?
You are always allowed to try. You'd almost think that no one was. Further, you can try as hard as you can. There is no limit, often, on how hard one may try, in theory.
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