Small mysteries
I don't get it. Over millions of years of evolution our body came up with a defense for burns and irritations: the blister. I don't understand how blisters work, but my innate faith in the wonders of human physiology means that they've got to be a wonderful things. Near miraculous, these little gloops of liquid forming a buffer between the damaged skin and the new layers being primed underneath.
Why is it then that when afflicted by something (like, say, being stupid with a match... hypothetically speaking, of course), and when our bodies go "here, have a blister" in response, us humans have a nearly unbeatable compulsion to pop 'em?
{2004.11.15 21:17}
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