Mini Motivation #111 - The Skin Rash Your Great Great Grandmother Had

Imagine this: a hundred odd years ago, a great great grandmother had a bad skin rash after returning from working the fields one day. She applied some ointment on it, hoping it would go away. Unfortunately, it didn't. As a matter of fact, it gotten worse, so she just tried other medicinal methods she knew, but still the rash remained. Over time, she knew she just had to continue treating it, but decided not to make sure a big fuss about it.

She grew old, living until age 95. The skin rash was still there until the day she died. It was then discovered that it was a form of skin cancer.

Fast forward to today, we're more well educated, more well exposed. When we see even a small skin rash, our minds sometimes will go ballistic, thinking of the worst. The family genes of having skin cancer had finally showed it's creepy head! We started fearing our deaths, or the bad days to come. We let worry affect our jobs, we let turmoil ruin our day, we let fear withold your love from our families.

With massive uncertainty, we finally went to the doctor, something we have procrastinated for a long while, afraid of being given the bad news. After a few checks, it turned out to be nothing more than a case of infection.

When I was first told of these two scenario, like you have might, I saw the irony of them. Firstly, the people of the old, despite being uneducated to diagnose themselves, decided to just brush of a life threatening decease, and just focus on living as usual. In the second case, because of "education", it tormented us even before we validated anything, and the fear even held us back from going to direct sources to find the truth.

What do you think about the two scenarios though? Would love to hear your thoughts.

Mini Motivation is my own daily strategy to inspire myself. Mostly 3-minute reads.

From Motivation, we gain Inspiration. From Inspiration, we achieve Momentum. And the rest, they say, is history.

Hope it helps nudge you a bit too in the right direction.

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Stay awesome!

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