Things I Don't Get

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I don't get why people's bodies have to get sore as they age.

I believe in assisted suicide for those with terminal illnesses and those who live in constant pain they can't live a life. I remember being in labor and if I had to live that way for the rest of my life, rest me in peace please.

We also put our sick away, in homes and hospitals, where we can't see them.

I believe it takes practice. When I got ill once, there was a few weeks where it wasn't clear how ill I was and I had to contemplate the possibility that I wouldn't be around much longer. At first that was terrifying, but after a while I got to a place where I could see my death as quite an unimportant thing. It really didn't matter. It's hard to explain to people, particularly since I had a two year old child at the time and she'd have lost her dad if I'd died and that would be terrible for her and I would miss seeing her growing up but it still would have been okay. It's just something that happens. I got very calm about it, my thoughts were, "Okay, if that's all I get, then that's plenty. I had fun. Thankyou." I can't explain it any better than that. I was in my late 30s so I can imagine that people in their 80s, 90s or higher probably feel that even more than I did.

But here's the thing. I don't feel that way any more. I got better and the calmness slowly went away. I can remember feeling it, the being okay with dying soon, but I can't get back to that place where I felt it. I think you have to visit that place frequently to keep death in perspective and the vast majority of us don't until we get older and our bodies start to fail and our friends and family start to die around us.

I don't get why they don't make psych drugs that are chewable fruit flavours.

It's to stop kids eating them thinking they are sweets. Drugs are meant to taste nasty to put kids and other vulnerable people eating them because they taste nice and then dying or something.

And you also have to keep over the counter meds for kids out of reach and hidden so they don't eat them thinking it's like candy. I did the same when I was a kid and my mom stopped me and telling me they will make me cry if I eat too many of them. I was eating them for the taste. I ate like two or 3 of them and my mom saw me and yelled at me and pulled the container away telling me it will make me cry. I was about 5 when I did it.

My kids are 8 and 12 now and wouldn't do this because they know.

...Also I've heard of little kids eating dishwasher tablets, tiny batteries etc. So the more deterrents the better, e.g. making drugs taste disgusting.

I don't get why direct sunshine kills my appetite.