Migraine

Well i sit here and write this blog with an annoying little headache. Nothing bad I really don't care but it makes me think of Dec. 8Th 2008. I went to school that day to become an acquittance of a massive migraine. Ended up in the hospital. Throwing up. It was a fun day.

But see then that makes makes me think of Christmas break when my entire family became infected with the flu throwing up all over the house. And then I think about my 7Th grade year when I got the flu and threw up then too. And then i think of of during that same year when i tore my MCL and missed and entire year of soccer. I wanted to die.

But now to my point. I had a headache, but yet I just remembered every bad thing that's happened to my body in the past 3 years. See I'm sure if you think about it you could give me a detailed list of every bad thing to happen to you in the last year. Bet it would take you about 5 minutes to finish too. But if I try to think about the good things that have happened the list is much shorter.

Garrison Keillor today said on a 'Prairie Home Companion' that Minnesota is full of complainers. He's right except it's the united states. We live in a sociaty full of complainers. Not all of us are and some of us deserve to be but honestly how bad can it get. Almost everyone can remember the bad things but we acutally have to sit down and think extreamly hard to remember the good things. We live in america for god sakes. At least when we get migraines we have hospitols to go too. At least it's the flu not malaria.

We live in the best place on earth yet it's our job to remember how "bad" we have it. What the Hell. Is america that self-centered? I don't want to know the answer to that question, i don't think i'll like it. Point is, can we just take a break for a day and enjoy the fact that our lives are so much grander then the rest of the worlds and not complain.

That's my challange for anyone reading this, Pick a day this week and spend that day not complaining. Not once.

Just Think About It,

Tufte