I think some of the best writing comes from our triggers. There is power in writing about and sharing things that cause you to have an emotional charge.
This is one of those posts for me.
It came from a MAJOR trigger that I have, and this morning, that trigger was set off by a single sentence.
The sentence said: “We might even have to go into a government-funded nursing home because of our failing health.”
Now, none of what I’m about to say has anything to do with the author or even the book itself. In fact, the author was only giving an imagined for-instance example about retirement.
What triggered me and set me off was that sentence, whether real or an imagined example, is what’s wrong with the way people think about health and aging.
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