Sick

I've been a little sick over the last week (not covid).. And it got me thinking, sickness is the way the body gets rid of invaders, the fever, the runny nose, the coughs are all reactions and attempts to get expel the disease.

Being sick is your defence system activating.

And then, serendipitously, my friend Stan posted this quote by one of my favorite philosophers, Ranier Marie Rilke:

“Why do you want to shut out of your life any uneasiness, any misery, any depression, since after all you don't know what work these conditions are doing inside you? Why do you want to persecute yourself with the question of where all this is coming from and where it is going? Since you know, after all, that you are in the midst of transitions and you wished for nothing so much as to change. If there is anything unhealthy in your reactions, just bear in mind that sickness is the means by which an organism frees itself from what is alien; so one must simply help it to be sick, to have its whole sickness and to break out with it, since that is the way it gets better.” - Rainer Maria Rilke

Pierre