May 15, 2012
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Which of your senses would you sacrifice!
This Has Nothing To Do With Good Sense…..(don’t know that much about it.)
The human body is unique beyond words. The ability to hunt woolly mammoths and make fire to cook em and then go to the moon all in 10,000 years….incredible! We have been, and still are, able to do so much because of some incredible and mysterious factors……our SENSES! Those wondrous gifts that we spend an entire life taking for granted, until by accident or illness, we lose the use of one or more.
SMELL…..attracts us to people, food, a different seat on the bus, and the joys of holiday aromas. It also serves as an alarm as it alerts you to the reason why the old lady next door has not been out to get her mail for two weeks. Smell enhances our experiences with new cars, babies in the morning, crowded elevators and petting zoos…..so much of our world goes up our nose.
TASTE……the list of things we have put into our mouths since birth is staggering and in many cases horrifying! Wonderful restaurants, greasy drive-thrus, your aunt’s pork fat pudding, every form of alcoholic drink and concoction, dirt from your childhood, dirt from the front yard of your frat house, a garlic French kiss…..and on and on. The things we have allowed to go pass our teeth. (Do not confuse with “good taste”, as that died during the 1960’s.)
TOUCH……the purest form of communication. Your mama’s caress, the friendly guy at the school bus stop, the feel of comfort, handshake of gratitude, holding hands, getting to first base…(not to be confused with a touchdown), the sting of a slap, reaching ecstasy with or without company. Hugs that give us our sense of being and belonging. It is this wonderful sense that has made it possible for humanity to mate and produce children faster than a crop harvester.
SIGHT……the sense to the mind. The visual understanding of our world. The sadness, the horror, the shame, the ridiculous, the very ugly, the very beautiful, colors, a baby’s smile, your Mama’s face, the Super Bowl, Lady GaGa. Sight can stand on it’s own to help the mind to interpret or entertain us. But, the sight of a molting Nightingale means nothing without the sound of it’s celestial singing. Seeing Britney Spears fall off a stage before she sings is a plus though.
HEARING……the necessary mechanism to total understanding and construction of thought. In conjunction with SIGHT, it aids in comprehension and conclusions. Alone, it gives the mind the joy of music, story, debate, American Idol, sounds of children, squalling babies and non stop rhetoric from spouses. With hearing alone, there’s the ability to create music and answer the front door bell.
COMMON SENSE……This is only a superficial sense, in that, humanity commonly loses that sense during national election time.
OK…….Here’s the question: If you had to have budget brain surgery under the new Health Care system and were allowed to only save one of your senses, which one would you select for the remainder of your life?
Comments (18)
I would sacrifice any other sense except my hearing! I appreciate my sense of hearing because I get to listen to any kind of sound (whether it’d be significant or insignificant, it doesn’t matter!), my worst fear is to listen to eternal nothingness…I love music, it’s practically a part of me, and if I were to lose my sense of hearing, what a dark day that would become.
I know a lot of people who seem not to have been born with common sense. lol!
It’s a hard choice. I guess if I gave up my sense of smell, but could still taste, it would be okay. I can’t imagine not having the others.
I can’t imagine being able to choose only one to keep. I know that, out of all of them, I’d sacrifice smell. Smells give me headaches, though I’d miss the smell of cookies baking and rain.
But… one to keep? I want to say either sight or touch. I lost hearing in one of my ears. It sucked. I couldn’t imagine losing it all together, but I couldn’t imagine being blind. and I’d want to feel things and feel being touched.
Sheesh, that’s tough!
probably touch!
i’d like to save my common sense, please. because i’ve never had any and i’d like to understand what it feels like.
i suppose i need my sight the most. i think it would be terrifying to be unable to see. and i’d miss driving.
If I had to choose one to give up, it would be smell. If I had to choose only one to keep, it would have to be sight.
@buddly47 - My thoughts exactly.
I think i’m the only person that would give up taste, haha. All of those other things are too important to me. I couldn’t bear never hearing, seeing, or feeling the warmth of my boyfriend.
@Orlei - ……..eternal nothingness” Now that’s a sacry phrase!
@Megabyyte - As long as I have touch, I have a world.
You write amazing blogs!! Glad I found you.
I need to be able to touch above all else. The lost of sound scares me, but most can still communicate by touch.
@Terri_du -
Thanks Terry. I agree with you about touch. Sight would be my second choice.
I’d rather lose my sense of sight, and practice writing without it, lolz . Thanks for the wonderful thought, you made me think about.
@UncCharlie -
My short term response is to WISH I were deaf so I wouldn’t have to hear my idiotic coworkers and their racism and gossiping and general stupidity.
A Charlie question for sure! But the intellectual exercise is too difficult for me. I can’t play! I love each and every delicious sense of mine and don’t won’t give up any… even in my imagination. No way!
@Greunie - That makes sense…….
That’s a hard question. My guess would be that I’d have to keep sight. I don’t perceive smells anyway. Ha!
i’d save my sight.
My sight so I can continue to look into the blue eyes of mt grandchildren.