They Say

I think I have to give up on conventional wisdom. Lately anything “they” say seems to be just – wrong.

Exercise will give you more energy. Really? I was walking the dog and getting in my recommended 10,000 steps a day. All I felt was exhausted, all the time.

Turn off the electronic devices an hour before bed. Yeah, didn’t work. In fact, a dark, quiet room is perhaps the worst prescription for sleep. I found the quiet time alone with my thoughts spirals out of control. I checked my fitness tracker: my heart rate actually goes up if I try that.

Track your food to help lose weight? Triggers binge-eating. Eat healthy? I ate three times the calories to avoid eating the thing I was craving.

Hire a dog trainer to help the new dog adjust to our home? She really convinced me the dog is on the verge of biting me if I come anywhere near him.

Almost every psychological trick or “normal” tendency I’ve read about doesn’t work for me. Not only has my body moved to extreme ends of the bell curve, I’m not sure my psychology can be charted on the same graph as the rest of humanity.

Time to stop listening to what “they” say. Obviously I was transported here as a baby from some alternate dimension. I need to figure out the rules for my dimension of origin.