To Vote Yes or No? That Is The Question

In the lead up to the referendum on Gay Rights, I had to ask myself these questions as thou i was homophobic. I try to understand other peoples frame of mind. Usually it helps me to explain my point better on why the situations should be allowed. 

So, when you talk to a person about people who are gay you get told “God made Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve”

Firstly, God made gay people as well, so that answers that. However, If i was a believer in God thats what I would say. The argument went on in my head as I asked myself further what they might say. “God didn’t make gay people, the Devil did”. Let me explain something about genetic diseases and how I believe they started. 

If you believe in the story of Adam and Eve. The couple made 2 kids called Kane and Abel. It is inevitable that incest would have had to occur to recreate life. Thats the fact in the situation, and that how I believe genetic diseases originated. Ask yourself this question if you are homophobic. How is incest ok but being gay isn’t? 

When I asked myself further questions about people who are gay and that they can’t reproduce life. This is also fact, and if I was to get asked this question by someone who is religious, I’m not sure how to answer this apart from love isn’t always just about the end result of reproducing life. It is one part of it. If it was the only part, the world would be over populated. And this might be a lead from that. Maybe God made gay people in a way that love can still happen between two people, and it will mean that the world won’t be over populated. Which leads me to my last point. Love is so powerful, and I believe that if two people are truly happy then who are we to say otherwise? 

The Killer Humidity

While studying Traditional Chinese Acupuncture, we learnt a lot about the elements which can effect the body. The elements invading the body to worsen symptoms. Our lecturer Dr Fanyi Wang told us that Bells Palsy rates in China went up during spring as their was more wind. If he wasn't Chinese, I would have taken this next statement as racist. "Chinese peoples faces are flatter and attracts the wind easier". Wind invading the body creates a paralysis, or stiffness. You've often heard of leaving the window open at night and creating a draft.

Anyway, the Californian weather is mostly desert climate. While I've been here it has constantly been in the 20s, and humidity between 10-13%. Perfect for a person with CF. Living in Ireland, with the humidity constantly high, hovering around 80%, or worse during the summer months. This isn't very conducive to CF. Humidity can create our bodily fluids to be thicker, and giving the mucus in our lungs, its going to make this worse.

Today has been different. I woke up feeling crappy and i was more productive. Productive meaning more mucus. I put it down to just needing to go on a run, forgetting that I ran two days ago! Off I went on a 10 mile run, and feeling like I needed to get the lower lungs I did some sprints afterwards to try clear more mucus. It helped, but I still felt very productive.
I decided to check the weather again. Humidity 71%!! This explains a lot. It was as if I was back in Ireland. It's like when you have a nice bed but after a while you forget how nice it is until you sleep in a lumpy crappy mattress. Well that's what it's like for me right now. Two different extremes.