Morning Gratitude:
- I’m grateful that when I thought I had slept in till almost noon, I looked at my phone, and it was only nine something. 😁🥳
- I’m grateful for my little handheld bidet. Quicker, cleaner, gentler, done. 😁
- I’m grateful for warm blankets. My room was 48° when I woke up this morning, but being under the covers, I was toasty warm. 😊
- I’m grateful that even in the financially discouraging state that I’m in right now, I’m still able to go out and help others.
- Though my hip and knees and ankles hurt badly enough to worry me for my future, I’m grateful that I can walk still and do what i need to do myself without needing to bother other people.
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Uh… morning 5×5 success. Well… 6×5. Doesn’t sound as smooth with 6, but… There are 6 now. 🙃
Tax progress. My goal is to have my 2022 taxes done in the next week. 🤞 That would break some records. 😁
Otherwise, the day is a blur. Knees and hips are really bad today. Walking the stairs hurts. I’m trying to take it easy. I want to go to the doctors to get checked out, for all the various issues that I’ve got right now, hips, knees, ankles, shoulders, among other things, but I just don’t trust them at all.
The medical system is completely broken. Sky high costs, and doctors who couldn’t diagnose a problem if their life depended on it.
Given what I’ve been hearing from family members in the medical field, I’m not surprised. From what I’m hearing, doctors are very poorly trained nowadays.
My personal experience bears that out in spades. Very few doctors have ever been able to do anything to help. I think the best doctor I ever had was actually not even a doctor. She was either a nurse practitioner or whatever it’s called when you’re not quite a doctor but you can practice pretty much as though you were.
She was the mom of a friend of mine.
I remember when I was younger wanting to be a teacher just to be a good one. One of the reasons I want to be a dad is to be a good one.
Part of me wants to be a doctor, so I can just be a good one.
I hate that money is such a powerful thing in society. I wish there were a way for the people who cared about people and not about money to have the bigger voice and a bigger sway, the bigger impact.
But money always seems to win.
I’ve given up on looking to government to solve any of these issues. Right, left, or center, it all seems to be the same. They all want money, power, prestige… They sacrifice the future so that they can have their glory in the moment.
No, it’s not to government that we should look to solve the issues that ail us: it’s to we the people.
How do I do this? How do I make this transition without wasting all the years I’ve spent saving money? Why am I so scared to be without money?
One life. One chance.
So close I can almost taste it, as the saying goes.
Let us bring together an army of people who care more about each other than getting ahead.
Anyway, joints hurt.
Bad joints. 🙃
Some good progress with self discipline today. That’s a plus. 😊
Other areas… Like getting to bed… still struggling. 🙃 It’s funny. I was tired at 9:00 and ready to go to bed, and now it’s almost 2:00.
Oops.
One thing that might sound a little dumb but is important for me right now is trying to figure out how to overcome my fear of death. There’s something in that fear that’s affecting me more than I realize, I think.
Love and hugs. 😊
Lift the World
~ stephen
Lift the World 