"It troubles me that we spend years in school learning about the lives of other people, but we devote hardly any time to studying ourselves." - Les Brown
I can understand the stereotype of the nagging senior the more I look back at the mistakes of the past. The other day I caught myself feeling so pessimistic about something that I pondered quitting. Experience has taught me that when I feel like this, it's usually because I'm just tired and crabby. The next morning, I was completely enthused about the activity. What a shame it would've been to quit!
The body's a fascinating organic machine, without quite enough gauges to prevent us from blowing a gasket every once in a while. Knowing how to read ourselves, sorting out reality through the sea of chemical and hormonal messages flooding through the pipes, keeps us from holding down the accelerator a bit too long and hurtling over the edge.
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