Tuesday morning and I’m writing this at Houston’s Hobby Airport. Switched it up from the typical HW Bush Airport and things are…the same. It’s all airports, man.
Yesterday proceeded flawlessly. Got that workout in, setting a treadmill distance PR in the process (3.1 miles, normally I struggle to get to 2), then a brisk two mile walk to MD Anderson where I had a blood test (WBC down to 19…closing in on the normal range!) and an uneventful obinutuzumab infusion. Uneventful meaning no side effects, no surprises, just 4 hours of slow drip into my vein, followed by an hour of monitoring me.
My New Years resolution was/is to read the original Athenian philosophers - Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. Socrates never wrote anything down, so that one’s done, and I’m into Plato now. Great stuff, but I only recommend it if you’re stuck somewhere for 5 hours with nothing else to do. Quick Plato nugget for you, as I’ve been pondering this one for a while now, and it still holds up some 2,500 years later:
I see you Plato
Plato believed there were/are three fundamental types of desires that motivate us humans and drive our pursuit of happiness:
Appetitive Desires - food, drink, pleasure, money to acquire these pleasures
Spirited Desires - Honor, victory, impressing others
Rational Desires - Truth, knowledge, understanding of the world
Plato’s theory is that we’re all born into appetitive desires, and that the fundamental goal of education is not simply to pour information into people’s souls, but to change their desires from appetitive, to spirited, and ultimately to rational. This turns people from pursuit of what they falsely believe to be happiness, to the pursuit of true happiness.
Pretty cool concepts to think about while you’re receiving life-saving cancer treatment and pondering how you want to live life from this point forward.
Anyway, my flight is about to board and I should get a move on. Very pleased I was able to pull this off, beat the winter storm, and get home to my family. Flight seems to be on time. Grateful to my wife for coordinating all this, and to old man winter for closing schools yesterday and today - didn’t even have to take sick days for this trip.
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