Wellness

The word wellness is a vast net that can catch even the smallest of quarks (in other words, the topics of discussion are varied and diverse like snowflakes or grains of sand); for me the list below constitutes a fraction of the fundamental enhancements gained from the study of the concept of wellness:

• Wellness is a commodity, a currency that some sell - be mindful of what you purchase.
• Biases of thought and actions are prevalent among humanity – by questioning biases, in all their forms, critical thinking will deepen.
• Each person’s understanding of wellness, health, and what it means to live well are subject to their biases, perceptions, and lived experiences. Embrace these differences; as the sun sets, we are in step together in the journey.
• Language is a powerful architecture of culture.
• Lastly: we live in an unpredictable world – open the door each day with the hope for predictability and be able to adapt to nature’s own impulses and whims.

As a future horizon thinker, it is with some certainty that I say, in 100 years, when the world is peopled a new, they will look back at this centuries beginning and grimace. Some may laugh at our ill attempts to create solutions to our current problems. Some may wince in disgust that our generation ever thought such-and-such was a good idea.

A personal strongly held belief, a bias of mine, is that continued industrial progress and over consumption of commodities, which damage and drain our natural world, will continue toward the “law of diminishing returns” and “our bigger-and-better society is now like a hypochondriac, so obsessed with its own economic health as to have lost the capacity to remain healthy” (Leopold vii-ix).

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Works cited

Leopold, A. (1948). The Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There. Oxford University Press.