Where did all the fear come from...Who left the tap running?

This was on old post that i deleted accidentally... oopsie!

A few days ago my boyfriend left me a link on my facebook, to a website he is criminally obsessed with... Cracked.com

The title of the post he sent me on a quest to read... 5 Things you do every day that are actually addictions.

http://www.cracked.com/article_19426_5-things-you-do-every-day-that-are-actually-addictions.html

So, most of the things on the list dont actually apply to me... Because i dont listen to pop music or tan.. or chew ice. But when i came to the section on applying lip balm, all of a sudden a switch flipped in my brain space.
Now i would never have thought i had an addiction to lip balm but reading that section, i thought maybe i do. I do use lip balm every day and am constantly re applying it. And then it went on to talk about Carmex lip balm ( the brand i use ) and how it contains the same chemical thats in embalming fluid (Mmmmm). And i started to feel sick as i stared at the jar of carmex in front of me and acting almost on instinct, i threw the carmex in the bin. I ran upstairs trying to find a different lip balm and ending up applying like a gazzilion coats of some shea butter and vanilla crap, which was the only one i could find. I felt kinda scared and worried about wheter id done any long term damage to myself.

And i started to think, if i had never read this article, i would have continued to use my usual lip balm and probably never have a problem with it. But reading something like that which (whether intentionally or by accident ) is desgined to put the fear in you, you start to worry about the worst. And it just goes to show how scared and terrifed people can be when it comes to their body and health.
I think that my generation has been greatly desensitized to things like violence, anger, sex and death because of the power of the internet. But that power has also turned us into germphobic scared little pussys. And that pisses me off... I don't need to know that my lip balm has embalming fluid in it or that staring at a computer screen too long is gonna make my eyes fall out or that eating red MnMs will give me cancer or any of the other bullshit claims the internet tries to spit at us. So, from now on, im not gonna read any more health related articles about anything that will make me stop living my life the way i've already been living it... until limbs are hanging off or i go blind or something. I've lived 21 years doing it my way ( well most of it anyway ) and im ok with going on like that for another while anyway...


Also, im now addicted to Cracked.com.... haha!

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