I recently went to my local pharmacy to fill a prescription. As I peered behind the counter, I couldn’t help but notice multi-level shelves stretching as far back as I could see, all of them overflowing with bags of prescription pills waiting to be picked up. It was quite a sight. It brought home to me how dependent we are on pills these days.
We take pills for pain, for healing, for sleep, or to stay awake, to restore energy, to calm down, we even take pills to counteract the effect of other pills. We don’t know what’s in them. We don’t know where they came from. We have no clue what they are actually doing inside of our bodies. Heck, we don’t even know how to pronounce them.
But we believe in their magic.
Imagine that. Complete trust and faith in something we don’t understand.