But then BOOM! Instead of reading about the weather in a Rocky Mountain town where I used to live, I am facing article that promises to tell me exactly what will reduce my immune system to rubble. And like an accident you can't look away from, I can't stop reading.
The first piece was about isolation, and how people with less daily contacts get sicker. Great. I work from home in a town where I have yet to make any friends after over a year. Strike one.
The next part is about not sleeping enough. Sleep? 8 hours a night? Yeah right. Strike two.
Chronic stress? You bet! Despite yoga and the best of positive intentions to meditate more, the stress continues. So strike three.
Bottling up emotions and feelings and not being positive were items four and five. Kind of seems like one or the other has to give, but since I haven't gone postal on anyone lately (or ever, for that matter), I guess I might be bottling up something or another. Strike four. And after reading that article, I'm feeling pretty pessimistic about the whole immune system thing, so I guess that hits strike five.
Yup, I get to strike out almost two times at bat in one article.
Now here's my question...if reading this article increases my stress, keeps me up with worry, messes up my plans to go out to lunch tomorrow, and makes me grumpy (but not enough to take it out on my family), isn't there only one logical conclusion? You got it!
Reading health advice is the worst thing I could do for my health. Now where was that in their list??
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