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Hello. Welcome to another DailyJim It is almost midnight here on Wednesday May 18th 2022. And I want to talk about today. I wore contact lenses for the first time in quite a while yesterday. And then I put them into a case which had dried out over time and I tried to wash it out and I think I rinsed it out with the contact solution. But that was also quite nervous putting in the context today thinking did I really clean it out well enough. You know? How long had those other contacts been sitting in there before that? They dried up and had to rip them apart and throw them away like they crushed it out. And so I was like, and then I, you know, having the contacts in. I felt this little pull on my eye and I'm thinking, are they mm hmm. And then I think I can go, I'm not sure about other people, but I know I can start going okay. Well, am I going to get a bacterial infection? Should I not be wearing these contacts? So I threw the contacts out and I don't know if that was the right decision. But I later I went out and bought a new contact lens case. But I guess what I want to talk about is just how one thing I've learned over these last couple of years. It's just how symptoms can be so hard to connect to the underlying disease. It's the underlying problem.
I think that was one of the hardest challenges with Covid is that what does, what does Covid make us do? It makes us cough, It makes us have a fever and makes our body ache, sore throat, maybe nasal congestion.
You know, like so many other things. And the one thing I kept saying to people is like, listen, I don't know if I get it, I have to test and luckily that they came out with a lot of different ways to test. Um not only to go in and get the pcr and have it go through the lab, but to do it at home nowadays and. I can't speak for other people. But I know for me, one of the things I struggle with the most in terms of physical health is the uncertainty not knowing what is the thing that's causing it. So, to come back to my eyes, my eyes feel a bit sore. Maybe one of them looks a little red and I'm thinking okay, but I only had the contacts in for 15 minutes earlier today. Could it be that well? It could be that it could also be that I didn't sleep that well. It could also be that um it was cold out today. So we had a fire going in the house and the fireplace. So it could be the smoke from the fireplace. It could be they're not sleeping, it could be so many different things, you know, and I think that's where it gets really hard in terms of diagnosing our physical health. Oh, wow. You know, in seeing, we see the symptoms, we see the effects, but we don't necessarily know what the causes. Could be many, many different things that are causing it underneath. And I think that's quite similar to emotional health as well. So, that's my, let's come up with the moral of the story. But yeah, I was just thinking about that and thinking, you know. So often will come out and we'll say this is the reason why I'm so angry. It's like, really, really? Are you sure that's the reason? Because there are lots of other things that cause the same symptom of anger? Are you sure that the underlying disease or the underlying problem is that one thing that you've identified for? Sure?
So I think I try to remind myself of that not only for the things that I'm going through, but when I look what other people are going through. So for example, today Elon musk posted something about the democrats used to be kind and now they're filled with hate and so I'm going to vote Republican, and maybe that's one of the challenges with twitter being like, what actually is causing this or what's causing the majority of this, What contributes 50 to his decision to tweet that.
Is it really something that the democrats did. Is it something the republicans did? And is it something you know, more or less unrelated having to do with the sec or having to do with his loss of income because the, market is tanking in some ways or does it have to do with something personal, his life? Who knows? You know, I think a lot of times we can latch on so strongly to, I know this person is feeling this because of this and I, I don't think that's always the case. I think very often we don't really know what's going on with someone else? We barely know what's going on with ourselves or we're barely honest about what's going on to really dig deep and figure out, okay, what is causing these feelings. So what's causing these feelings in my eye was causing these feelings and my heart was causing these feelings in general. So on that note, I'm tired. Hopefully I wake up in the morning and my eyes feel better, so I'll talk to you all soon.
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