In his book The
Feeling of What Happens neuroscientist Antonio Damasio makes the
interesting point that each of us has one and only one body. I believe that the only things I truly own
are my physical body and my time. I do
not own another person (and Sadie Pearl the cat would be the first to tell you
that I don’t own her either). The books, clothes, and other stuff that I normally
think of as belonging to me will be mine only while I am here to use them. When I came into this world, small and naked, I
had only my body and my time and those will be mine until I leave it.
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