In a perfect world everyone would floss

This has been a topic of conversation lately amongst many different groups of friends. Everyone hates going to the dentist because every time they go, they feel that they get yelled at for not flossing, or not flossing enough, or are told they have some stage of gum disease. Everyone agrees that if they didn't feel like they were doing something wrong every time they went to the dentist, they would go more often and regularly. I couldn't agree more. I am physically scared of going to the dentist. I don't know why, but I actually feel a wave of nausea thinking about going. The sounds, how it feels when they touch the wrong spot, but mostly its the way they make me feel when I'm there. But as a part of the "new year, new you" theme, I will be making an appointment soon...and I use soon loosely, as in, within the year. But this has got me thinking, if everyone flossed in the world, there would be no gum disease, and dentists would dramatically lose a large part of their income. We all know that they aren't making the big bucks off of their 6 month check ups. They are making a shit ton of money off of the problems that are caused by people not flossing their teeth....so why do they get SO mad at you for not doing it, like its the end of the world and at the age of 26 you are going to lose all of your teeth? So this made me start thinking even more about the "bad stuff" in life. If cars didn't break down, mechanics wouldn't have jobs. If we didn't get sick, doctors and nurses and a whole slew of other people wouldn't have jobs. If our boyfriends didn't leave us for women in the cougar club, therapists wouldn't have jobs. If our backs didn't hurt, massage therapists wouldn't have jobs. If we didn't have days where we felt fat, all the people at the gym wouldn't have jobs. If we didn't have hangovers, the mexican shop owners wouldn't have jobs. Do you get my point yet? All I'm saying is that bad stuff happens all the time. In fact, a lot of bad things happen to me all the time. I'll just use the example of my car. Whether its a flat tire, or two.... or its broken down completely, or the battery died, at this point I just roll with it. It sucks, but I laugh every time. People always say "you have the worst luck with that car, you should just get rid of it." I probably will get rid of it soon and get a new car (once my credit rating improves ). But that new car is going to eventually start having problems too, and I'm going to have to know how to cope with them. Life is never going to be perfect, there are always going to be problems and things that you wish would have turned out a different way. Instead of focusing on the negative side of everything, try to take a shitty situation and see what lesson you are learning from it, or just laugh about it. Because bad things aren't going to just stop happening one day. So, in a perfect world, yes, everyone would floss, cars would never break down, no one you love would get sick, your boyfriend would never choose a 45 year old woman over you, your back would never hurt, you would never feel fat or hungover. But these things make the world go round. And to all the Dentists out there, even if you use the best scare tactics, the entire world as a collective group of people are NEVER going to start flossing EVERY day, so please, stop being so mean about it.