It is 6:23 on this beautiful, crisp, Monday morning. Class starts at 8:00, and I have to create one more post on my blog before school begins. This morning I want to address the subject of being sick.
All weekend I was sick. I ended up having to miss three days of work and having to stay away from home as to not spread the illness. I had the flu. I did not have swine flu, but instead a very weak case of Type B Flu. The entire weekend was tiring to the utmost degree. On Friday, I had to go into Montgomery from Prattville to pick up a few things from my house, and in less than 2 hours, I was worn out.
Why do people get sick? Is there some way to cure being sick at all? I am currently taking a few different types of medicine for my "disease", but I want to know if we can kill it. Is there a way to stop people from ever getting sick again?
The answer is probably no, because just like humans, viruses and diseases adapt to an ever-changing environment in order to stay alive and reproduce, seeing that reproducing is the only reason that humans try to stay alive. I think that in the years to come, there will always be ever-expanding resources of sicknesses to keep humans on their toes during the game of survival.
Is a society without illness really a society at all?
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Heh. Have you heard about nanotechnology? Maybe in the future. Or maybe we'll be genetically engineered to have heightened immune systems. Or maybe illness keeps us humble, I don't know.
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