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Hey, everyone welcome to another DailyJim It's thursday july 7th 2022. I want to talk about how we often hide what's actually going on with our bodies, but especially as it relates to drinking alcohol or other things. So I had two beers before this and I have had a couple of long days, especially coding yesterday, I was coding all day, and so today I coded most of the day and I said, okay, I'm gonna take a break, you know, I, I deserve a couple of beers, so I'm gonna take a couple of beers. And as the thing about recording this episode, I was thinking how many times have our leaders politically, professionally, in the house and in the family and the community etcetera etcetera, pretended like been had a few beers and pretended that they didn't, you know, tried to play it off as? No, no, I haven't had any alcohol, I haven't had any things to alter my mind or body state. And just got me wondering just how often in general uh people in authority tend to hide what's actually happening with their bodies.
How often do we say when we're feeling sick? How often do we say when we're feeling sad? How often do we say when we're feeling drunk? How often do we say when. Somebody has used marijuana or how often do we say when somebody has used more intense drugs or how often do we basically just share what's going on with our body versus pretend like no, no, we're totally fine. We're totally in the expected norm. The wave that everyone expects from us. I think this comes into play a lot with positions of authority. I was talking with a friend in East africa and how sometimes the belief is that parents shouldn't open up too much to the kids or shouldn't ask their kids for advice. And I think that's a pretty common belief around the world that parents and elders should not be too emotionally close or too emotionally open with the kids. That there should be some distance, that there should be some uh huh respect maintained. But I think it happens in a lot of positions of authority where we have this expectation that the authority has, it all put together, knows what's going on, is fully confident. Is is everything together, You know, and, I wonder how much this belief actually creates distance and creates distrust amongst the followers if we're talking leaders and followers.
And how much it creates distance between the two. By hiding and pretending that we're not going through different experiences, rather similar experiences, right? So maybe you have an event where everyone in the audience has been drinking alcohol and the person on stage pretends like they're, oh no, no, I'm totally sober, but they're not, but they pretend because they don't want to admit because maybe if they admit it, then people go, oh but you're not serious, you're a professional, you can't you can't drink alcohol when you're doing something professionally.
Pause and laugh at how there's a becoming a New Year's tradition where I think it's CNN hosts a New Year's Eve party and Anderson cooper gets drunk and he doesn't drink normally. And so he's taking shots on the air with, I forget the guy's name, Andy Andy, maybe Andy Cohen I think is his name. And uh so it's interesting, you know, in a way for me seeing him drink humanizes him in a little more way because it's not just this very. Put together professional identity rather, but it's a human being who also gets drunk and doesn't know what to do. And it was a little confused, is takes a shot of tequila and makes a really disgusted face. Um and I don't think it has to be about alcohol, but I think it's really just about how do we show what we're actually going through, especially from a position of authority and how do we let people see our own humanity?
I mean I think it's easy, but I think it requires courage. Sometimes the fear of people seeing us, as maybe maybe it's that the fear of people seeing us as just a normal human, instead of as this mythical creature, this superhero that has it all put together, then you know the fear that people realize we don't fully know what we're doing. We try things and we fail and we succeed and then we fail again, then we succeed, succeed, fail, fail, succeed like this huge mix and.
Try to give the facade that we know what's going on. Uh Anyways, I hope you've enjoyed this to beer rant. I don't know if it's a rant. More ramble, I think it was more of a ramble and I hope to plan slash hope to talk to you tomorrow. Bye.
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