A New Year

By Scott Coulter This is the second blog entry I wrote for this week. I'm scrapping the first one. You see, I watched a documentary on the "workings of the universe" and got myself inspired to write a flowing, philosophical post about the vastness of time and space, the insignificance of people, why we should all come together and get along... Not bad stuff, but after rereading it, I think it missed the mark. That entry read like a long prose about grand concepts. And I thought that would be good for New Year's — you know, dreaming big, looking ahead. But dreaming big is not a problem for me. It's not a problem for most of us. We're easily taken with sweeping concepts and grandiose dreams. We fall down in the details, in the mundane day-to-day reality of our lives. And so I'm writing about details today. I'm writing about the nitty-gritty. Because that's what diabetes is — it's the nitty-gritty. Most people don't have to worry about their blood glucose, because their body takes care of that FOR them. Not us. We have to occupy ourselves with a complex process going on constantly inside our bodies, at the cellular level. Forget the vastness of the universe, half of my attention is devoted to a process that would require a high-power microscope to observe! Even if we DO talk about grand ideas and future plans, dreams and philosophy, these dreams are not where we live. We live in the moment. We live in the mundane, not the fantastical. Do you have a wagon? When the...
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