Sickness and scientific hodgepodge
Have you ever wondered what it felt like to honestly be ‘sick’?
It becomes a growing struggle to keep up with understanding pain and suffering. Everyone has their own perception of what it feels like to be in agony – the agony in numbers; the agony of truth; the agony of agony itself; the agony of discourse; or agony of health.
Sickness does not have an absolute definition. Its tentativeness leaves it up to the user or bearer to be open for interpretation. But be not mistaken – sickness should not be confused with pain. Pain is a sickness, but sickness is never painful in itself. Anyone that believes so may very well be disillusioned in what sickness truly is.
Sickness is the umbrella that merely displays that we deviate from health as a disease, disorder, or dysfunction. We cannot function correctly societally in sickness , and instead compromise. We brace the opposite limb; we ingest a drug, herb or a concoction of both; we eat certain foods and leave out others; we celebrate rituals to overcompensate for our inability to be healthy; we flinch, grimace or groan; or we rely on something, someone or somewhere.
In other words, we’re all sick.
Pristine healthiness is a human impossibility. Those that live without trouble become troubled, and those that live with trouble trouble others. It’s impossible to live in health, so should we stop seeking to be healthy?
Perhaps what we should seek is not being some saintly being, but something under. A true animal that functions in the total ecosystem. A social, natural, and/or medical ecosystem. A functioning unitarianistic blob.
Sounds painfully difficult, doesn’t it?