I had a friend visit a special medical clinic for a particular health issue. He walked in 350lbs and volunteered himself for a battery of elaborate tests. “What’s wrong with me?”, my friend asked the medical staff.

That’s when a doctor (who seemed to be from the future) stepped up and said, “There’s nothing wrong you, you’re working as any human is designed to work. You’re eating poorly and lack an adequate level of self care. You’re ignoring how your body is communicating with you and you continue to do what will always fail you. You’re coming to see us here at the clinic because you want so desperately to look away from how you’re creating your own misery and disease, when you could be putting in half the effort and solving your own health problems. You’re 350lbs and you’re supposed to be 180. To get to 350lbs you need to continually consume toxins and live an extremely unhealthy lifestyle, of which continually asking for someone else to solve your problems, is part of this unhealthy living arrangement you’ve made with yourself. When you’re 350lbs, the body breaks in one way or another and even us medical doctors can’t tell you what’s going to break first, but things break, we know that. If you eat poorly, you get sick. We aren’t magicians and we can’t do anything about that. So when you ask me “what’s wrong with me”, the shortest answer is “you’re wrong with you”. You’ve done this to yourself and the power in that depressing realization is understanding that you can also undo what you’ve done by doing the exact opposite of what you’ve been doing. Me telling you what part of your body you’ve broken by eating toxins, won’t help you heal. Not eating those toxins is the only thing that will make you better. So would you like to keep running east looking for a sunset and trying to rearrange the furniture on the deck of the Titanic…….or would you like to come over here and talk about what a healthy diet looks like?”

And until all doctors are taught to talk exactly like this, our society will continue to crumble and be knocked back into the stone age by a system that continually poisons us and poisons everything else that we need to lead healthy, satisfying and fulfilling lives.