I’m the type of girl
who can jump from zero to sixty in less than a second….especially when it comes
to my health. Ever since my
brother-in-law passed away from cancer, I’ve been afraid I might get it too…or
something worse. So, when I get a
headache, I think it’s an aneurism…..if my back hurt, I think it’s kidney
disease….if my leg is sore, I think it must be a tumor….the list goes on and
on! So the other day when I noticed a “bubble” in my gum, I jumped to the
conclusion that it must be an abscess that was obviously ready to pop and at
any moment could send an infection right to my brain and kill me! I told you…ZERO TO SIXTY!
Well, I hadn’t been
to the dentist in over ten years…I had a HORRIBLE dentist as a kid that
basically scarred me for life and made me deathly afraid of them….but the idea
of dying scared me enough to get me to call a new dentist, get an appointment,
and go in for a checkup. Turns out I’m
not dying…not even close! Actually my abscess
is really just a cavity irritating my gums enough to make them swell…Something
that they can and will fix in less than an hour later this week. Oops!
But the whole
situation got me to thinking about all the other things I jump from zero to
sixty in and I realize it’s not just a symptom I portray in regards to my
healthy, but it also something I do in my relationships and in my faith. Even within this week I can count numerous
times where I’ve assumed someone is thinking the worst of me, or jumped to the
conclusion that something that was said carried a much meaner attitude with
it. I’ve even done the same thing with
God, where He’ll be speaking something to me and I’ll jump in with my twenty
point plan of how to make it work, or the nineteen million reasons it won’t
work, before He even finishes His sentence!
Why do I do
this?!?! Am I alone in this?!?! Is it all a part of the human condition or
just part of my overly analytical mindset?!?! ………………So many questions, so little
answers!
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