Everything is about freedom and slavery. Even the process
of getting well when one is sick is an exploration of the contest between
the two. Obviously the mind is bound in a body that is suffering great
pain. But when one sleeps the mind is freed to travel to strange and better
places. Usually when one stays home from work, though sick, he could actually
successfully do some sort of task, but the chains forged by the necessities
of the job would keep the mind from escaping the pain. Forced to focus
on a specific task in service to another, the mind will resent the requirements
placed upon it. Rather than the escape of the restful mind, one will focus
on the agonies of moving an arm just so or keeping one's face from showing
his inner pains in a charade that only becomes more difficult because to
some degree the furthering of one's pain will be due to their audience.
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