The Amazing Human Body

A few months ago I went with my friends to see the Body Worlds Exhibit in downtown Salt Lake City. I like to think that if I was more dedicated that I would've become a doctor. Some of my favorite shows on the Discovery Channel involve cutting bodies open and other gorey stuff. It was awesome to see real human bodies preserved for my viewing pleasure. After actually seeing a smoke and cancer filled lung, I wonder how anyone could smoke cigarettes-its disgusting.
The human body is amazing, luckily I have one of my own. My body and I are very close, we've been really good friends since birth. I never leave home without him, and he follows me around everywhere I go. We sleep in the same bed and shower together.
We're bfffe. (best friends for freaking ever...thank you Rachel)
The human body can do amazing things. For example:

• Everyday, humans lose and replace 200 billion red blood cells. Our bodies manufacture 2 million replacement cells in a split second. Since you began reading this blog, your body has manufactured about 30,000,000 blood cells. A single red blood cell will travel over 100 miles through a network of over 60,000 miles of capillaries and arteries.
  
• Every minutes 30,000-40,000 dead skin cells fall off your body.
• Your heart beats 6,000 times an hour, 144,000 times a days, and 30,000,000 times a year.
• There are over 10,000 taste buds all over your tongue, except in the center. Babies have taste buds all over the inside of their mouths, not just on their tongues. On a somewhat related note, have you ever tasted baby formula?...not recommended...unless its part of an extreme dieting technique...
• Humans literally see the world in a new way every morning. The first time we open our eyes, the top layer of our vision sense receptions is simply scorched away.
• Human bone is as strong as granite in supporting weight. A block of bone the size of a matchbox can support nine tons--four times as much as concrete.
• A man's testicles manufacture 10 million new sperm cells each day-enough that he could repopulate the entire planet in only 6 months! Although, just because you can, doesn't mean you have to...
• The focusing muscles of the eyes move around 100,000 times a day. To give your leg muscles the same workout you would need to walk 50 miles every day. As Dwight Schrute says, "The eyes are the groin of the head." I believe it.

When I was in high school, I discovered a powerful tool. Life, as it usually is, was stressful. On this particular day I was in 3rd year Honors French, or should I say, J'étais dans les troisième Honneurs d'année Français. I didn't really enjoy the class or the teacher, and it was hard. On one particular stressful day, my left eyelid began to twitch. At first I pushed it aside and didn't think anything of it. Over the course of a few days, I realized eye twitch=stress. I was looking for a solid reason to drop the class and this little eye twitch was my gift wrapped package of excuses. I dropped it like it was hot. (way too corny Bryce, show some class...) The eye twitch subsided and the universe was restored.
I've noticed that my eye twitch will return, usually before a big test, or when I'm playing my bro on the Xbox. My body is telling me something isn't right, my environment needs adjustment. My eye hasn't twitched in quite some time, most likely due to the fact that I've graduated from school and that I don't have a job, or any other real responsibilities. Unless beating Assassins Creed on the PS3 or shooting the moon in Hearts can be considering responsibilities. I think they are...
Honestly, I miss the eye twitch. The eye twitch keeps me on my feet. It keeps me moving forward, progressing of sorts. Stress isn't always a bad thing, there is such a thing as good stress; more commonly known as Eustress. Eustress helps us to meet life's challenges, to take that step into the unknown, to fall (and stay) in love. I could use some eustress in my life...