War and health

Since we read a lot of war stuff in my Non- western lit. class and I was just reading some children's books about W.W.II, and I am dealing with this shooting the insulin dope everyday now, I am thinking about how resilient and adaptive humans are.
When I first got diagnosed with diabetes I completely rebelled at the idea of taking medication every day. It took me a year to settle down and take it regularly.
Faced with the idea of sticking a frickin’ needle in myself I could not conceive of how I could possibly do it once, much less everyday. Well, I’ve settled down to it to some degree. (Except OUCH! and the part where I thought "hey I could do some heroin now." Don't worry, I hate heroin with a passion, THE stupidest drug EVER. Im just saying, the thought arose.)

When faced with the incredible destruction of war (or weather), people tend to just keep going and develop new skills to keep themselves alive. They tend to keep putting putting one foot in front of the other.
Now I’m not talking about stupid, trite, used up, panacea, old saws like “God never gives us more than we can handle” I fucking hate shitty, untrue proverbs like that. I’m just talkin’ about the SUPER AMAZING ability of humans to cope and adapt.
It’s blowing my mind right now.

Extremely odd earworm radio the other day: Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves - Cher
So loud upon awaking that I still haven't forgotten it. Where the hell did that come from?