Self-Healing with Afflictions

There’s a certain passage that can be believed that anyone could connect with. Whether they had strict parents or easy going parents. The way you were raised doesn’t stop you from a child’s nature to wander and explore, and eventually, fall down and scrape a knee. The passage that Elizabeth Spelman wrote about a body repairing itself is something that really sticks out, it could be found on page 33 in Repair but who really wants to pull out a book for a single passage? Spelman wrote the following:

There is first of all the repair of the human body. The human body has an awesome capacity to repair itself in ways that are to the ordinary observer both visible (e.g., the healing of a cut) and invisible (e.g., the continual self-repair of DNA, or the recently discovered capacity of the human heart to repair itself.

In a way, you could say that Spelman is connecting our bodies to how she views Willie from previous chapters.  Our bodies could be thought of as bricoleurs. They repair even the slightest abnormality with what it has available or what it routinely gets.

The passage could also connect with various other stories, fiction or non-fiction, however, one that sticks out to me is The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary E. Pearson. It starts off with a seventeen year old girl who is in a coma, and she soon wakes after a year.  That alone connects with how the body works to repair damage within itself, invisible to the mere human eye.

Later within the story, she winds up getting scrapes and various other injuries just to find herself being healed, much faster than typically found in humans, but having her body mend her nonetheless.

It’s also found that she was in a coma due to a near-death experience and she’s not truly in her own body anymore.  Her parents were scientists and were able to create a body that could sustain a human brain and function as a human normally would and no one except her family knew; she didn’t even know herself until roughly halfway through the story.  However, injuries are bound to happen and a body has to do what a body has to do. In this case, again, repairing the injuries inflicted on this not-so-normal normal girl.

Of course, if you’re asked to think of a story where someone gets injured, you could possibly think of five or more books right off the top of your head.  Some could be general fiction stories with fights between characters or they could be non-fiction stories about what it was like to be a soldier in a war.  But both have a common piece.  Injuries being healed with little or no help from outside sources and the outside sources are mainly only used in serious conditions like a broken bone or a gunshot severely close to an important organ or artery.

You could even connect it to real life and see the disturbing side of healing. To use a personal example, my aunt was recently diagnosed with breast cancer.  Cancer happens inside of your body and your body continues to try and fix it.  We know this to be true because there has been scientific evidence showing that everyone has cancer within their bodies; whether or not it starts to show could be because of a plethora of reasons.  However, my aunt got her own treatment specified for her cancer, she went through surgery and she is now in remission.

Some people are not as lucky and this is where the disturbing aspect comes in.  Some people, despite going through similar treatments as my aunt, don’t make it to live any longer. Their cancer is what brought them down.  They had a limitation in abilities and were no longer able to push down the limitations in their way and go on to find even more to pass.

Limitations and Apologies

While reading Spelman, I’ve noticed various different topics.  Topics that include the following; self-repair, types of repair (in multiple ways), and even limitations and different approaches at “apologizing.”

Touching on limitations makes since to me.  To get started, both human genders have their own set of qualities.  Females are typically more nurturing and careful with their daily activities, whereas males tend to be a little more rough.  The limitations are all based off of those views of each gender.

Their skills can be put to the test dependent on their builds or even what their conscious allows. I think using tools could be a useful way to view the different “builds.” Tools are made to complete certain tasks, although, they can even rarely complete tasks that those tools were not intended to do.  To apply these back to human genders, females have the built-in task to be nurturing as earlier stated and the males have the nature to be more handy, or more of a handyman than a female.  But don’t get me wrong, no one is saying that the genders can not swap roles, they can, but as with tools, it could be rare.

Now we can even take a further look into Spelman by looking at her approaches of apologies.  It could be that females tend to be more into apologizing with sincerity and guilt, whereas the males are more into “reparations.”

Reparations mean never having to say you’re sorry.

What could be viewed as the males way of apologizing, at least in this sense, is generally going and paying off their wrong doing.  Now, we’re not going to say that males definitely always go for reparations and females always give sincere apologies because it is not true, the two types apologies just fit into the views of nurturing and being a handyman.

Say there was a car crash, anyone would want the reparation because of possible hospital bills or to repair their car since both of those problems can be very pricey. People put their hard earned money into keeping themselves healthy and into their car, a simple “I’m so sorry that happened,” isn’t going to cut it. They’re going to demand financial help to get them fixed.

Luckily enough, many people view that both of those two types of apologies work together, as long as your actual apology is sincere and males and females have their limitations but can always expand what they are capable of.

Self-Healing

There’s a certain passage that can be believed that anyone could connect with. Whether they had strict parents or easygoing parents. The way you were raised doesn’t stop you from a child’s nature to wander and explore, and eventually, fall down and scrape a knee. The passage that Elizabeth Spelman wrote about a body repairing itself is something that really sticks out, it could be found on page 33 in Repair but who really wants to pull out a book for a single passage? Spelman wrote the following:

There is first of all the repair of the human body. The human body has an awesome capacity to repair itself in ways that are to the ordinary observer both visible (e.g., the healing of a cut) and invisible (e.g., the continual self-repair of DNA, or the recently discovered capacity of the human heart to repair itself.

In a way, you could say that Spelman is connecting our bodies to how she views Willie from previous chapters.  Our bodies could be thought of as bricoleurs. They repair even the slightest abnormality with what it has available or what it routinely gets.

The passage could also connect with various other stories, fiction or non-fiction, however, one that sticks out to me is The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary E. Pearson. It starts off with a seventeen year old girl who is in a coma, she soon wakes after a year.  That alone connects with how the body works to repair damage within itself, invisible to the mere human eye.

Later within the story, she winds up getting scrapes and various other injuries just to find herself being healed, much faster than typically found in humans, but having her body mend her nonetheless.

Of course, if you’re asked to think of a story where someone gets injured, you could possibly think of five or more books right off the top of your head.  Some could be general fiction stories with fights between characters or they could be non-fiction stories about what it was like to be a soldier in a war.  But both have a common piece.  Injuries being healed with little or no help from outside sources and the outside sources are mainly only used in serious conditions like a broken bone or a gunshot severely close to an important organ or artery.

With some simple connections, I believe it is clear how Spelman had wanted to try using everyday bodily issues to give us all a better view at what she is trying to convey.