It is communicable. It is virulent. Once understood, it becomes weak and vulnerable. We are not born hurting, nor are we born to hurt. But we may learn to hurt, from others, who were hurt by others, who were hurt by others, all in a seemingly endless, ancient chain.
All pain cries out for attention and care.
For too long we have hurt each other, wondering, wandering, lost in deed, mind, spirit, and soul. Blinded by our fears, deafened by our ignorance, silenced by our shame, we each are victims and collaborators of a crippling parasitic disease of the human psyche, in turn infecting loved ones in our wake. The purpose of life is simply to survive, reproduce, and make a copy of itself to continue through space and time. Whether it accomplishes this through chemosynthesis, photosynthesis, or biosynthesis, aerobic respiration or anaerobic respiration, genetics or culture, biological structure or human psyche, is of no matter. Dr. Snow never did discover the cause of the cholera epidemic, but he didn't need to.