Our Bodies, Miraculous. Our Health, Mysterious.
When you think about it, from the moment we are created from two cells uniting, our whole life is a miraculous event. My old brain has a thought, it makes my fingers move on this laptop keyboard, these words happen, and other brains can understand the message. And while I'm doing it, this body is taking care of itself, making energy, dumping what it can't use, breathing, getting tired automatically so it can sleep a few hours and attack another day. But, just the fact that it works, at all, is what amazes me. Think about everything involved. Think about the most complex machine you can imagine -- maybe that's an AI. Yeah, it's pretty amazing. But, it's just a "brain," sort of. In our bodies, we have a brain that can still outdo an AI in many ways, and we are self-sustaining. No AI is self-sustaining. Not yet, anyway. And then, something goes wrong. This amazing machine we live in breaks down in some way. Most of the time, it can be fixed. Sometimes, it even fixes itself! Bones knit, skin heals, up to a point. But sometimes, the problems are a mystery, even to individuals who have spent years of their lives studying and learning, and more decades gaining experience treating problems of the body. And then, of course, we get older and the body eventually gives up or is overcome by an invader or some problem. But while we have it working, isn't it just an amazing organism? I, for one, haven't lost the capacity to be amazed by everyday things. I hope you haven't either. (And, don't forget all the other animals on Earth who are also amazing organisms, from the giants like Sperm Whales to the mites that live invisibly in our eyelashes.)