Judgment: Flawed or Impaired?

As I get older, I often find myself questioning very basic beliefs more and more.

I do, however, understand concepts such as why humans must have a mechanism to register pain.

For example, while it seems meaningless to have a kidney stone associated with pain, perhaps the utility of the pain is to send a message that you have to change some lifestyle choices.

That assumes, however, that human beings have the desire to practice preventive medicine or that they even have the ability to learn from past experiences.

Our judgment is often flawed, even in the presence of compelling data. I know and am constantly being told by Sugar Momma that I need to drink more, yet I continue a camel's existence, coffee notwithstanding.

That kidney stone example may be stretching it a bit, just as it needlessly stretches that ureter, but more concretely, it's probably a good idea to sense pain if you put your hand inadvertently on a hot stove burner. You really want to have some feedback mechanism that would give you the incentive to remove your hand before it became completely roasted.

Delicious, yet destroyed.

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Give up your Dreams, Now

One of the problems with getting older is that you don't dream quite as frequently , vividly or with as much imagination.

Maybe you just don't have the same ability to recall, but something is different. There's a strong correlation between erosion of dreams and ear hair.

I happen to have been trained and educated as a Pediatric Dentist, but I rarely think about teeth during the course of the day. I certainly don't dream about teeth or even hygienists, who were often the punchline of a Woody Allen joke.

I'm certain that some people may have dreams, more appropriately, nightmares about me or my ilk. Maybe even about Woody Allen.

There's no accounting for the excess baggage that some people carry with themselves throughout life.

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