If You Haven't Got Your Health...

So there's this H1N1 scare going around. For lack of caring, I'm not going to do any research. These are just some of my thoughts that have surfaced since the rise of this pandemic about our country's general approach to heal and American health care.

Based on my experiences, and maybe ones with infants aside, but people have this knee jerk reaction when their body is threatened (to clarify, this is not 'Swine Flu' specific). So when there is any hint of infection, viral or bacterial, the first line of defense comes over the counter. Actually, beyond infections - any issue - there has to be some pill, or drug, or drink that you can take, pop, or chug in an attempt to cure those 'problems.' Whatever happened to taking accountability? Our bodies are magnificent structures of unimaginable capabilities. But all I see are people finding some sort of composite, artificial, manufactured, structured, calculated, programmed, organized, or specialized temporary 'solutions to whatever ails them.

Well maybe it's my masochistic nature of wanting to and appreciating the pain my body endures, or maybe it's my desire to be my own solution to my apparent problems, but doesn't it seem like a cop out? Like Rocky realizes in his agonizing drive before deciding to travel to Russia to face Drago in Rocky IV, 'there's no easy way out, there's no short cut home.' Because if you don't address your issue now, face up, and deal with it IN REALITY, then all you're doing is suppressing it. Just because you're relieving pain doesn't mean you're curing it. Just because you're minimizing swelling doesn't mean you're fixing the joint. Just because you're numbing the pain, doesn't mean you still don't have it. Just because you're sucking down an energy drink doesn't mean your body is revitalized. Just because this country tells you that in two easy payments of 19.95, your problems can be solved, doesn't mean they solve anything. Your health, mental and physical, should be taken care of naturally. Maybe that force field that people build around themselves won't be so vulnerable to a common cold. Get some dirt under your nails. Leave part of your body unsanitary. It might help set you free, and probably keep you a little stronger and healthier. And if not, at the end of the day, at least you trusted your body. Isn't that a decision you can live with?