There is a point in the Ship Who Sang where Helva asserts that her ship IS her body. (Note: We talked about this in class on Tuesday, and this is me getting around to writing about it ;)) This got me to thinking, why are we attached to our bodies? Sure, they're the shell that we inhabit, but I feel that we are similar to Helva, where that isn't what really makes us and that we have something put inside our body that is truly us.
So, for this blogs sake, let us assume that I am right that that is what we are made up of. Something inside of our body. So, what is it that attaches us to our body if that's not really us? After some thought, I think I've decided that it is familarity that makes us so attached to our bodies. Just as Helva has (almost) always had her ship body, and has become very attached to it, we have always had our human body, and this is the reason why we are attached to it. It does make me think though, how do people with some type of deformity feel about their bodies? Are they attached to these deformities because they've always had them?
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