Nascent Thinker | Contemplations Along The Way

Anaesthetic and the loss of feeling alive

I’ve never read Brave New World, but I have heard the song Iris, and it has me won­der­ing how alive most of us feel. Deal­ing hon­estly with myself, there are times where I don’t feel very alive. There’s almost no need for me to go out­side, and so I’m dis­con­nected from nature. Most pain is an option, I’ve been asleep for every surgery I’ve been though. Media offers an escape for any­thing and every­thing, only because I refuse alco­hol, drugs and women. I live in a safe city, I’ve never been through or fought in a war. Death isn’t a real­ity I usu­ally deal with, and when I do it’s a very ster­il­ized “encounter”. Dis­ease, famine and plague are words in a dic­tio­nary, or entries in his­tory books. The things that most peo­ple had to — and still have to — deal with are things that have never … (Read more)