My nails grow like grass, needing to be cut each week. Or last least filed and shaped. It makes me wonder if other peoples’ nails are the same way. It also makes me wonder if nails and hair are related, since my hair seems to grow inordinately fast too.
Nails . . . hair . . . The obvious growing parts of the body. The ones we spend time on.
At the same time, there are other more subtle body parts that grow and die. I’ve read that our skin rejuvenates itself every so often (The timeframe eludes me), and our inner parts — bones, muscle, tissue — are also on a schedule. But they’re not as obvious. And therefore not part of our daily ritual.
It’s as if a person’s body is a car, and nails and hair are the things that are cleaned during a good car wash. Similar to the auto’s exterior. But the things that keep the engine running smoothly are not of concern at the car wash. They are the concern of the auto mechanic. In the case of a human, the auto mechanic’s role is played by Dr. So-and-So.
There’s no object lesson here; rather, just a thought about what to care for in one’s body. Sure, the nails and hair are important; but so is the annual check-up and the tuning that could result. A tuning that only a physician can do.
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