During my aerobic walk, I had a weird sensation in my ears. I thought a bug went into my ears.
Turns out, yes, a bug can crawl into your ear, but no, it probably won’t burrow into your brain like a sci-fi movie. And if you don’t hear any buzzing, scratching, or flapping around in there? Then it’s probably not a bug—just your nerves being… well, nervy.
Then my thoughts spiraled from there into the eternal debate: contact lenses vs. laser eye surgery. Verdict? Contacts might be more flexible for people like me who can’t commit to reshaping their eyeballs.
Today, at some point, I confessed to feeling anxious all the time. Probably because I forget that focusing on positive things isn’t fake. It’s not lying to myself. It’s choosing to zoom out when my brain zooms in too hard on scary stuff—whether it’s a war in a nearby country, or just the suspicion that a fruit fly set up camp in my ear canal.
Anyway, no bugs were found. No surgeries scheduled. But I did come away with a reminder: mindset is something I can shape.