Day 7:

Surprise surprise. Received word from the herald that the village was having a sword-fighting tournament and was made to grumpily oblige, made me completely exhausted and unable to complete the map I have been trying to complete for days now.

Today's quiet day, so besides making a small clearing where I dug out my new makeshift, more protected caché, really didn't make a lot of progress in terms of building up my base. I did, however, reinvent the wheel. Which was kinda cool.

Today I had a new thought, which kinda came to me while I was suffering due to those terrible wildberries. In reality, our bodies are separate from our minds. This kinda coincided with a talk I attended months ago where the speaker mentioned that professors "look upon their body as a mode of transport for their heads". I mean, really, they're different. Perhaps when you're dehydrated. Do you know the levels of water in your body? No, but the body tells the mind via signs such as cracking lips. Then the mind commands the body to drink water. If you're leading an unhealthy lifestyle, do you know how critical your unhealthy-ness is? No, but the body tells the mind by falling sick. Then your mind notices this and commands your body to do something about it. If you have cancer or pneumonia, you don't know it. The body keeps it from you until it really can't, then signs start to show. Right now, every one of us don't fully know or understand our own bodies, their needs or their ailments. We don't know the body, it functions as a separate. Thing. We are not us. Its like.. people and government. Managers and employees. To think I had a notion about "'we' are all essentially only that little squishy organ in our heads" years ago, but only made sense of it now. On this stupid island. Oh well.

Azazyl

Stench of humanity,
The rot of those fair.
Despair!
Of lost sanity and
Dreams never there.