Rather like certain kinds of rare, peak-type sensuous epiphanies (“I’m so glad I have eyes to see this sunrise!” etc.), great athletes seem to catalyze our awareness of how glorious it is to touch and perceive, move through space, interact with matter. There are wonderful things about having a body, too, obviously - it’s just that these things are much harder to feel and appreciate in real time. Can anyone doubt we need help being reconciled? Crave it? It’s your body that dies, after all. If this is not so obviously true that no one needs examples, we can just quickly mention pain, sores, odors, nausea, aging, gravity, sepsis, clumsiness, illness, limits - every last schism between our physical wills and our actual capacities. (1) There’s a great deal that’s bad about having a body.
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