A Brief Reflection on Decay and Delight

     Our decay is their delight.  But not only decay.  Accident, illness, disease, debilitation are conditions that the medical profession thrives on.  And that's not a condemnation.  Deficit or deficiency is the sine que non of many professions.  Teachers strive to transform ignorance.  Lawyers seek to attain justice in a situation of transgression or conflict.  Science seeks to change the unknown into the known.  Ministers foster the restless search for meaning in spiritual life.  What binds these practitioners is their address of the presence of absence.  We are aware of persistent longings in ourselves for stasis, equipoise, integration, a center and a sense of balance.
     It's not surprising that we turn to seers, savants, prophets, medicine mavens, wizards, wunderkinds, and gurus to anchor our waywardness.  Enlighted experts have knowledge sets we lack, but they need our lack as much as we need their lead.  It's a kind of social symbiosis more than parasitic feeding.  We all benefit from the supply and demand.