Are you looking for REAL health care? Or only sickness care? If we're more concerned with the unpleasant EFFECTS of an ailment than with its causes, it is not Health Care --- it is Sickness Care. If we care enough to do something about it only when we're sick it is not Health Care --- it is Sickness Care. Think about it from this standpoint --- An ancient wise King (reputedly the wisest of ancient times) once remarked that "man has dominated man to his harm". (Not a gender-bias comment; simply referring to the human race as a whole) Such domination does not have to be by PHYSICAL force. The King also added, in one of his widely known (at the time) proverbs, that the person "who thinks things out is hated" [as in: disregarded, despised, ridiculed]. And, truly, in today's pleasure-oriented, anti-think culture, the IDEA of "thinking for oneself" IS popular, but serious reasoning actually is not. For the most part, we have allowed the culture to convince us that we're "too stupid" to understand "important matters of life" and need "experts" to do that thinking for us. Of course, truly good advice can be priceless. The wise King acknowledged that "there is accomplishment through many advisers." But there needs to be a balance. In today's society, whether intentionally or unintentionally, we have almost completely relinquished control of our personal life --- including our health and well being. Granted, real thinking requires some time and mental energy that we may PREFER to spend on something we IMAGINE we'd enjoy more. But taking control of our life doesn't HAVE to be an "anxiety trip". It CAN be a beautiful, fascinating, exhilarating journey; just as life itself is a journey. We don't have to figure everything out today, and we can't "see all the scenery" in five minutes. But would we take a scenic cruise with our eyes closed or holed up below deck playing video games --- and pay someone else to "see the scenery for us"? Of course, if you truly VALUE momentary pleasures more than you VALUE having control of your life, it may not be the thing for you; but don't we ENJOY thinking about things that interest us? And what could be more "interesting" than a feeling of well being at least most of the time ---not just momentarily when we have some kind of pleasure to take our mind off reality or a medicine to deaden our sensibilities and forcibly modify our body's responses to it's normal needs for internal cellular renewal?
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We can fool ourselves into imagining that life and health are major priorities when, actually, our primary PURSUIT may be PLEASURE, while our REAL concern for LIFE may be only in the enjoyment of the moment ---- with, possibly, an OCCASIONAL fleeting fear of injury, serious illness or death ---- which soon passes if we're still able to flit from one "good time" to another.John Flannery, Richmond County, North Carolina, USA https://creativecommons.org /licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en -----------------
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