Good News From The Doctor
August 17th, 2008
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I know someone who’s been having fairly serious problems with his back. After he went to see the doctor, he was very happy to tell everyone the good news:
“The doctor said that if I eat right, which I won’t, and exercise, which I won’t, everything will be fine!”
He seemed perfectly content knowing that he had the power to change, if not the desire. Sometimes there’s a psychological difference between having a choice and not having a choice, even if you allow the outcome to be the same.
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August 17th, 2008 at 11:40 pm
Tim is not insane. Just funny and very insightful.
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August 18th, 2008 at 1:49 am
Hi Hunter,
I love the fact we all have choices. Choices equate to consequences – good and bad. But it’s all up to us.
August 18th, 2008 at 11:03 am
Hi Hunter – Tim is so sane – people from Derbyshire can’t help having that air of weirdness about them. At least he had the sense to leave the UK to live in sunny Florida.
I think some of it is to do with control. If you realise you have the power to do something for yourself – you feel more in control.
August 18th, 2008 at 3:03 pm
@Hunter: I think it’s also about hope. Even if he’s not going to start exercising and eating right at this moment, there’s always the possibility that at some point he might decide to do these things and then he’ll be fine. I think that humans as a species are pretty weird
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August 18th, 2008 at 9:15 pm
Hahaha….what a joke! Thanks for the laugh on a rainy morning against a skyline of black clouds. I like to start out my mornings this way! Thanks!
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August 19th, 2008 at 10:23 pm
OK, I’m mostly convinced now that Tim is sane, but I guess I’ll need to read his blog some more to be sure!