Disclaimer: This is not science. Except for the quote right below this.
“Carpal tunnel syndrome is a condition in which there is excessive pressure on the median nerve. This is the nerve in the wrist that allows feeling and movement to parts of the hand. Carpal tunnel syndrome can lead to numbness, tingling, weakness, or muscle damage in the hand and fingers.”
- Science
The Carpal Tunnel is a roadway running through the veins of your body. By human comparison, it’s pretty tiny, but the blood cell nymphs call it the Great Way, so it’s no joke to them.
Blood cell nymphs — or as it’s politically correct to say, cellers– aren’t the best drivers in the world. When the tunnel tightens around your wrist, there’s inevitably a traffic jam, but it’s not all due to poor navigation.
A good deal of the problem is way the Median bridge intersects. The cross over point between the bridge and the tunnel is a landmark– sacred, even, to many cellers– and no one dares cross under it without sharing a kiss with a loved one or giving a wish for the worlds beyond. This causes the inescapable back up of traffic at both points, which literally vibrates the world around them.
As a human, you might recognize the moment this happens. To a celler, it is a holy oscillation. To you, it might be the moment your hand freezes over a rote task. You mean to pick up a fork, but your hand doesn’t close around it. You intend to write a blog post, but your hand cannot seem to stretch its way to the keyboards.
It’s a frustrating moment for you, I’m sure. It’s easy to think of our need to work in balance with our own body, but it’s important, also, to remember our need for harmony with all the worlds around us.
Even the small ones.
Even the tiny ones.
Even the nano ones.
We give names to the moments we experience, and they are valid by sheer default of our experience. A doctor might tell you about Carpal Tunnel Syndrome and how you have it, or might one day develop it– and it’s important. It is just a fork or a blog post– but it is your fork and your blog post. You are important, so this disruption is, too.
I’m only saying it might help to remember that maybe it isn’t all caused by reckless typing or driving– that perhaps when you experience a hand cramp, you are also experiencing the wonder of being the framework of a world overpowered by hundreds of thousands of nano kisses and wishes.
And a good deal of those wishes are for you.
You are, after all, the world beyond.
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Carpal Tunnel Syndrome is actually really terrible and this of course was in no way meant to belittle those who suffer from it. Those like me.
Pro tip: Don’t google it, or if you do, exclude pictures of the surgery for it. Seriously.
Have you ever made a wish or kissed under a bridge?
