What you think makes you better is not what you think
Me: My shoulder and leg are killing me today.
Her: I married you the day you broke.
Me: No backies.
There’s a massive “historic” snowstorm that’s supposed to hit my area today and it’s already started as I’m writing this.
I was supposed to have gone out to Long Island for a seminar but just got the cancellation notice late last night. Just as well since I dunno how I was gonna make it back in the snow, especially since my injuries aren’t healing like I wanted them to.
My buddy Bryson stopped by the other day and we grabbed a coffee around the way. We chatted about getting older, injuries, kids, mortgages and the sky blue repair company. Stuff old men talk about over coffee.
Speaking of kids, when I was a kid, I remembered a story about a greek doctor – maybe Asclepius – who cured people that had lethargy with this magic soup.
Centuries later, scientists recreated the ingredients of the soup and didn’t see anything particularly noteworthy about it.
But they then realized that he cooked the soup in an iron pot, creating an iron rich soup for people withe anemia. The cure had nothing to do with the ingredients of the soup itself, rather the vessel it was cooked in.
There’s a related story with how this one dude came up with an idea to cure Cambodians of anemia with a lucky fish made of iron cooked in soup. They wouldn’t do something as simple as put a piece of iron in their soup until it was shaped like something they recognized.
Environment, circumstance, and pure dumb luck have so much more of an effect on things than I think most people realize, I think.
Getting back to my buddy, we talked about how most people think they have to be ready for having kids or a making that call to Northpoint Mortgage, or what ever, but I think it’s the opposite of that: Getting kids or a mortgage makes you ready for kids or a mortgage.
Suppose that’s another post for another day.
Right now, my circumstances say I gotta run out into this snowy environment. Maybe I’ll take some pics.
Location: The Manhattan snow
Mood: hungry
Music: Stones and sunlit streets, demons on dark roads
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2 replies on “Iron fish, soup, kids, and mortgages”
Nice post – I remember one friend said “if you wait for all the lights to be green you’ll never go!”
That’s a great line! I’ll use it, thanks Doug!