Time's Most Deadly Agent: The Dentist

As I was sitting, waiting for 20 minutes in the dentist's chair, wondering if my jaw and headache problems were rooted in some major dental problems, I noticed that time was killing me at an exceptional rate. More than usual. My mind was racing from one catastrophic problem to the next... could I need a root canal, maybe my jaw is disaligned, maybe my wisdom teeth are causing the constant dull pain? Even worse, maybe it is none of these! Perhaps it's not a dental problem at all! What if it there was something cancerous growing in my brain? With each new thought came more anxiety about my predicament. At the moment, it was very clear that time had a close relationship with anxiety. Anxiety was an extension of time, and time was an extension of my anxiety. Those moments enhance the destruction that time creates. I'm sure everyone would agree that time is killing us much more quickly when we are late for something and we're stuck in traffic. It is the anxiety of the situation, however, that is the catalyst for time's irregular pace. You can almost feel the grey hairs growing on your head.

Solution: eliminate anxiety! While the dentist can be very unpleasant by nature, I noticed that it was more my reaction to the situation that supported time's wrath. I WAS CREATING AVENUES FOR TIME TO KILL ME BY ALLOWING MYSELF TO BE STRESSED. If time is killing me, and I am supporting time's scheme, then I am killing myself... slowly. I do not wish to kill myself, but time is so manipulative, that time gets me to carry out it's will. Keeping my cool is stressful situations is my new way of saying F U time!