it's in your head
[sep 13 2006, 21:24]
strange.
today i thought how much physical things influence us, how much they honestly matter. i'm not thinking about the physical attributes that we've all learned to consider more important than anything else, i'm talking about our physical form, our body, and how its shape, its properties and its disabilities define who we are.
today, i met a patient at work. if you met him in the streets, you wouldn't have noticed him at all. you would have passed him by like anyone else, just because he doesn't matter, he's no different.
but the fact that there's something wrong with him, whatever that is, that's what makes you recognize him as special, as different, because he keeps babbling about utterly unrelated stuff when you pass by.
whether it's something genetic that he's been carrying around his whole life, whether there's been an accident, whether something happened that flipped a switch inside his head, whether he tried one drug too many... i don't know. and honestly, it doesn't matter.
it's the fact that the brain is such an incredibly sensitive device that even tiny little mishaps can cause it to malfunction.
i've known this all along. i was perfectly aware of it.
but today i realized, really realized how fragile we are.
charon
today i thought how much physical things influence us, how much they honestly matter. i'm not thinking about the physical attributes that we've all learned to consider more important than anything else, i'm talking about our physical form, our body, and how its shape, its properties and its disabilities define who we are.
today, i met a patient at work. if you met him in the streets, you wouldn't have noticed him at all. you would have passed him by like anyone else, just because he doesn't matter, he's no different.
but the fact that there's something wrong with him, whatever that is, that's what makes you recognize him as special, as different, because he keeps babbling about utterly unrelated stuff when you pass by.
whether it's something genetic that he's been carrying around his whole life, whether there's been an accident, whether something happened that flipped a switch inside his head, whether he tried one drug too many... i don't know. and honestly, it doesn't matter.
it's the fact that the brain is such an incredibly sensitive device that even tiny little mishaps can cause it to malfunction.
i've known this all along. i was perfectly aware of it.
but today i realized, really realized how fragile we are.
charon