Published in Dawn Magazine on August 9th, 1998
You’ve had sinusitis since you were a child. Someone tells you to try homeopathy. You go to an aged homeopath, one whom a neighbour recommends highly, and you are struck by the way he listens courteously, not at all like the allopathic doctors you know (whose only concern is to earn millions every year). He gives you some pills and powders and immediately you feel better.
A month later, you realize that you aren’t your normal self. You feel, in fact, like you did when you were sixteen. So, on your next visit, you ask him if there’s anything else in the stuff he gives you which makes you feel so young. He beams. “It’s working, “ he says, “You’ll be a real man in a couple of weeks.” You almost faint. You remind him that you’ve paid him a small fortune to clear your nose, not to turn you into a raging maniac. He explodes. “You’re a funny man, “ he says, “Why don’t you like it?”
A horrible thought strikes you as you listen to the drooling nut. If he can make you a youthful 16-year-old, what’s to prevent him turning you into an 80-year-old doddering wreck? You decide, quite wisely, never to go to him again.
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