health

[splendid_season]

- "Are we still human?"
- "[      ] is dangerous to your health"
- Extensive travel and exposure to water and food that we're unused to; pathogens, irritants that we have not yet developed a resistance to
- Extended periods of sitting
- Reliance on computers
- Opportunistic feeding on missions; and reliance on fast serve, oily, high-sugar, high-salt content food that has been questionably prepared
- The job matters. It affects the lives of entire communities, including vulnerable populations + mistakes are costly (human, financial, and reputational costs) = high levels of responsibility, pressure, stress
- lack of sleep
- no set work hours

=

- back pain in my early 30s
- legal blindness and really my eyesight keeps getting wore
- borderline burnout in my early 30s
- panic attacks and crying spells
- asthmatic cough
- fat
- no exercise
- limited social life
- some worrisome executive check-up findings
+
Sometimes I lose sight of WHY. I know why, but I don't feel it.

Mirrored by experiences of colleagues
- sickness
- hospitalization
- breakdowns
- poor social skills

:(

Health is the most important thing, yes.
But how do we balance this with this profession, really?