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Friday, September 16, 2005
Human Perfection
I always believe that a healthy, blooming baby is the nearest one can ever get to human perfection. Those supple limbs, the effortless ways in which movements are executed. The lack of bodily pain and afflictions that will manifest and grow with age and aging. Perhaps the only individual who is able to contend with the blossoming baby is the gymnast. With years of training and conditioning, the gymnast is able to control bodily movements with a certain degree of ease and dexterity. When the gymnast moves, it is a performance executed with style. With the gymnast, the body is truly subject to the mind and its dictates. As for the rest of us: as we grow, and age, and finally degenerate, we move further and further away from perfection. Our bodies become larger, longer, stouter, more wrinkled, and more problematic. Throughout our lives, we are constantly finding ways and means to slow down and, if it were possible, impede the process of aging.
I always believe that a healthy, blooming baby is the nearest one can ever get to human perfection. Those supple limbs, the effortless ways in which movements are executed. The lack of bodily pain and afflictions that will manifest and grow with age and aging. Perhaps the only individual who is able to contend with the blossoming baby is the gymnast. With years of training and conditioning, the gymnast is able to control bodily movements with a certain degree of ease and dexterity. When the gymnast moves, it is a performance executed with style. With the gymnast, the body is truly subject to the mind and its dictates. As for the rest of us: as we grow, and age, and finally degenerate, we move further and further away from perfection. Our bodies become larger, longer, stouter, more wrinkled, and more problematic. Throughout our lives, we are constantly finding ways and means to slow down and, if it were possible, impede the process of aging.
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