Denial isn’t always about religion or morality; sometimes it’s about pure, stubborn vanity. An ophthalmologist once told a middle-aged patient he needed reading glasses due to age-related changes.
“That’s impossible,” the man argued, pointing to a magazine on the table. “George Clooney is older than me, and you never see him wearing reading glasses. If he doesn’t need them, I don’t need them.” The doctor tried to explain that even A-list celebrities can’t escape the aging of the crystalline lens, but the patient was convinced he had “celebrity-grade” DNA.
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