Every company, every success, and every movement has a story. This is the story of More Health, Less Healthcare. It may be long and boring to you so here is the take home message. Instead of asking, ‘what could I accomplish if I knew I couldn’t fail?’ Ask the question ‘what is WORTH doing even if I do fail?‘ Failure is an option.
Sometimes you need a reminder of the journey so this post is more for my benefit of getting it down on paper to see and recount the obstacles that have happened. You may not care about it but maybe you’ll glean some hope out of it to keep fighting for that thing you want badly but hesitate because you fear failure.
Childhood
I remember being sick. I remember almost every February in grade school, a friend delivering all my Valentine’s day cards because I was absent from school. It wasn’t just that day, it was multiple days and sometimes a week at a time…or so I remember.
I remember ear infections, bronchitis, strep throat, laying on a rubber heating pad that looked like a whoopee cushion, and I remember lots of antibiotics. I also remember when they finally figured out I was allergic to Penicillin. I remember not being sick for so long after they realized that.
I remember writing a report for school on what I do after school and the report listed all the TV shows I watched from the moment I got home until dinner time. I remember also listing the bowls of potato chips and cookies I ate. Then I remember my parents getting called in for a parent-teacher conference.
I remember moving and going to a new school. I was not only the new kid, I was the ‘husky’ new kid. I remember my mom and I school shopping for husky jeans. I remember thinking husky was a brand name, like Bugle Boy, instead of a code for ‘fat kid’ jeans. I also remember bragging to my friends that I wore husky jeans like they were the latest pair of Jordan’s. I also remember sucking in my gut for school pictures because I was embarrassed of my weight. I remember I was only in 5th grade at the time.