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Message: [QUOTE="diggerfoot, post: 3246777, member: 1673"] Oh, boy. Between JordyG's, Bellemere's and your comments I can see I was being quite obtuse. First off, I was not responding to your words at all. To confirm your intent, you are one of the least offensive folks on here. There was a reference to realist in the body of the thread and it often has been employed by people in reference to a pessimistic outlook in the realm of possibility. I was not going to respond to the other two, figuring I just might be more obtuse in the process, but if you thought my comments were prompted by you I know I owe you some clarification. I stand by my faulting of pessimism being equated with realism comment. By itself this is not a new bone of contention. Optimists have challenged pessimists and vice-versa for time everlasting. My new spin is making a correlation to the poor health adjusted life expectancy in our society. I understand this may not be the proper place for such tangential tie-ins; here is why I do so. When my wife Cindy finally was diagnosed with Alzheimer's (after four years, five doctors and seven tests worth of denial because she was "too young"), we wanted our tragic circumstance to yet provide some benefit to others. We have done that by living as well as possible no matter the circumstance and reporting on both this and on what I have learned about brain health and caregiving in the process. Mostly I do this by my own social media outlets; perhaps that is where my comments should be confined. Yet I have extended this purpose in two ways. My exploration into brain health reveals several correlations with my previous exploration into how our social systems work. In many ways, doing what is good for you is right for society and doing what is right for society is good for you. I include that extended perspective in our outreach. In this case, being a pessimist likely is not doing your brain any favors; equating it with realism definitely is not. I also extend outreach by occasionally making observations on the Boneyard, since I belong to this community and it has a broader reach than my humble social media outlets. My participation on the Boneyard started in the mid-nineties, when it was administrated by the Courant. I was very active in the nineties and early millenia as Mapper. Now I am less active as Diggerfoot, as I have far greater priorities. Believe it or not, I always have some doubts about my "preachy" posts on here. I acknowledge that perhaps I should not do that. However, our agreed mission since Cindy's diagnosis leads me to err on the side of being preachy in the hope it benefits a few people. Absolutely none of that preachiness was directed at you. [/QUOTE]

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