I have come to the conclusion lately that people worry far too much in this world. You cannot turn on the TV, open a newspaper or read a magazine without there being an article on something we have to eliminate or add to ourselves to make us healthier.
The other day I was in a fast food restaurant and the lady behind me freaked out because the guy behind the counter touched the counter with his gloved hand. She demanded that he change the gloves before he made her burger. Now I understand that there are germs everywhere, but if she thinks that changing the gloves is going to make her more sanitary and eliminate the germs in the world she had better go and buy herself a bubble to live in.
I really do think that we have become a society of germ freaks. How many of you carry hand sanitizer? How many of you take multiple vitamins in a day? How many of you have eliminated or added something to your body because an article told you to? I can bet that many of you have answered yes to at least one of those questions, if not all. Are you really healthier? Are you really warding off all of those nasty bugs out there? I think it is the placebo effect. We are told by the "higher authorities" that we need to watch this, add that, and we do it, and feel healthier. But if we didn't would it be any different?
Some of our issues I believe is that we are so scared of the germs we are not giving our bodies the ability to fight off the bad germs when they do get in. And I hate to break it to you, they are going to get in, you are going to get sick! We wash our hands 5-10 times a day, sanitize our hands the other times, use anti bacterial soap on our dishes, all of those kill those bad germs, however they also kill the good ones too I believe. We are not allowing our bodies the ability to fight off some of these germs, so when we get the major germs we have no chance. We are not giving our bodies any ability to fight!
Would a hockey player make it to the NHL without practice? Nope, he has to practice, practice, practice before he makes it. Our bodies need to practice, practice, practice on some germs, so it can fight off the "big" ones.
Now I am not saying to rush and throw out soap and sanitizer, but let kids be kids. Let them eat the carrots out of the garden without washing them, let them eat a snack without rushing them to the washroom, a chooch can be "sanitized" by a mother's mouth and not a pot of boiling water.
Paddling on down the river of germs with no sanitizer in sight.......
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